From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M0yQN-0005oO-4B for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 09:41:39 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M0yQJ-0005j6-1q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 09:41:38 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38753 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M0yQI-0005iw-LN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 09:41:34 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:54525) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M0yQI-0008RD-5p for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 09:41:34 -0400 Message-ID: <49FEF069.8020000@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 16:40:57 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <49FE0E97.30602@codemonkey.ws> <49FEB0A6.4080104@redhat.com> <49FEEC7D.8090601@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <49FEEC7D.8090601@codemonkey.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC] Bring in all the Linux headers we depend on in QEMU 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 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.