Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Import Linux headers for KVM and vhost

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

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)

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