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

Mark McLoughlin
2009-05-04T12:43:00Z

On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 12:08 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> 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.

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.

Cheers,
Mark.