From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Set a useful default for kerneldir
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:40:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090701134020.GS6760@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A4B653B.5010203@codemonkey.ws>
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 08:31:39AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> The reason we don't specify an explicit include is that it makes it
> possible to have a cross compiler with headers installed in the cross
> compilers root. If you default to /lib/modules, you have to explicitly
> override it when cross compiling.
You can still override it for special cases. This is just a better
default than /usr/include which is near always wrong.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-01 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-01 9:33 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Set a useful default for kerneldir Andi Kleen
2009-07-01 13:31 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-01 13:40 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-07-01 15:10 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-09 19:00 ` Anthony Liguori
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