From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [RFC] Bring in all the Linux headers we depend on in QEMU Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 16:40:57 +0300 Message-ID: <49FEF069.8020000@redhat.com> References: <49FE0E97.30602@codemonkey.ws> <49FEB0A6.4080104@redhat.com> <49FEEC7D.8090601@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , kvm-devel To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:53564 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751063AbZEDNld (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2009 09:41:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49FEEC7D.8090601@codemonkey.ws> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.