From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M0yjp-00043y-8o for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 10:01:45 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M0yjk-000418-P0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 10:01:44 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37305 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M0yjk-000410-Jn for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 10:01:40 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:42012) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M0yjk-0003iI-0L for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 10:01:40 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 16:01:33 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Bring in all the Linux headers we depend on in QEMU Message-ID: <20090504140133.GA7296@lst.de> References: <49FE0E97.30602@codemonkey.ws> <49FE9069.7010201@mail.berlios.de> <49FEE9EC.6060604@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49FEE9EC.6060604@codemonkey.ws> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , kvm-devel On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 08:13:16AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > The fact is, linux-libc-dev is *not* meant for applications to use as > the official kernel ABI. We shouldn't depend on it. Umm, it is. That's exactly the reason what it is for. Note that the name of the package varies depending on the distro, but those headers in /usr/include/linux/ are the ABI for features not shimed by libc.