Re: [RFC] Bring in all the Linux headers we depend on in QEMU

Anthony Liguori
2009-05-04T13:24:17Z

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