From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Import Linux headers for KVM and vhost Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 19:55:07 +0300 Message-ID: <4DC0336B.7020106@redhat.com> References: <4DC00BB1.7000008@siemens.com> <4DC031CC.1040902@siemens.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: qemu-devel , kvm , Marcelo Tosatti , Alexander Graf , Anthony Liguori To: Jan Kiszka Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:60424 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753908Ab1ECQze (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2011 12:55:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4DC031CC.1040902@siemens.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 05/03/2011 07:48 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: > This helps reducing our build-time checks for feature support in the > available Linux kernel headers. And it helps users that do not have > sufficiently recent headers installed on their build machine. > > Header upstate is triggered via > > scripts/update-linux-headers.sh LINUX_PATH > > from the top-level QEMU source directory. > > Consequently, the patch removes and build-time checks for kvm and vhost > in configure, and also the --kerneldir switch. Kernel headers are > supposed to be provided by QEMU only. > > Kernel headers were automatically imported from current kvm.git, > 93c016c8c4. Some are not covered by any license and can be considered > GPLv2 with user space exception. Some are explicitly GPLv2 - at least > for QEMU that's fine in any case. Others are "BSD" which shall to be > considered a compatible variant according to Rusty. Reluctant ack. (though for commit log cleanliness, the scripts and the headers should be in separate commits) -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function