From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [RFC] Bring in all the Linux headers we depend on in QEMU Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 08:25:17 -0500 Message-ID: <49FEECBD.1040507@codemonkey.ws> References: <49FE0E97.30602@codemonkey.ws> <49FEB0A6.4080104@redhat.com> <1241440974.8777.38.camel@blaa> <200905041501.42884.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark McLoughlin , Avi Kivity , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , kvm-devel To: Arnd Bergmann Return-path: Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.46.28]:2717 "EHLO yw-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754269AbZEDNZU (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2009 09:25:20 -0400 Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 5so2214948ywb.1 for ; Mon, 04 May 2009 06:25:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200905041501.42884.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 04 May 2009, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > >> Right, but if you e.g. try to build a newer qemu-kvm on F10, you >> currently need newer kvm kernel headers - IMHO, we should use #ifdef to >> allow newer qemu-kvm build with older kvm headers. >> > > I think the kvm and virtio headers should just be shipped with > qemu-kvm in their latest versions, rather than relying on the > ones from the kernel. Everything else should come from the > distro-supplied glibc kernel headers. > Just to reiterate, because I should have mentioned it in the original note, we need virtio to be buildable on non-Linux systems so those headers must not depend on having distro glibc headers. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Arnd <>< >