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From: "Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Import Linux headers for KVM and vhost
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 08:13:04PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 05/03/2011 08:09 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > >
> > >  Reluctant ack.
> >
> > What downsides do you see?
> 
> The usual "it shouldn't be this way".  Every other package (including, I 
> think, glibc) uses the sanitized system headers.  Except for kvm-kmod, 
> the system headers are always available.

I agree, it doesn't feel quite right to bring in the headers. I don't have
any alternative suggestions (besides better HOWTOs/Documentation) though. 

Cheers