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

Avi Kivity
2009-05-04T13:41:33Z

Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> 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.

It is:

$ rpm -q --whatrequires kernel-headers
glibc-headers-2.9-3.x86_64

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Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.