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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Bring in all the Linux headers we depend on in QEMU
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 08:24:13 -0500
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Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> Comments?
>>
>
> Thinking again about it, this is not really necessary.
>
> In general a distro provides kernel headers matched to the running 
> kernel.  For example F10 provides 
> kernel-headers-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64 to go along with 
> kernel-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64.  So a user running a distro 
> kernel (the majority, given that most people don't inflict pain upon 
> themselves unnecessarily) will have exactly the features exported by 
> the kernel.

kernel-headers is not usually installed by default.  Also, I'd rather 
not deal with #ifdef code as we introduce new features like TUN_VNET_HDR.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori