Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 37/76] i386: import & use bootparam.h

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 14/02/19 17:40, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> ---
>>  hw/i386/pc.c                                 |  8 +------
>>  include/standard-headers/asm-x86/bootparam.h | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  scripts/update-linux-headers.sh              |  6 +++++
>>  3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 include/standard-headers/asm-x86/bootparam.h
> Hi -- I just noticed this commit while I was looking through
> git logs for a different reason. For future changes to
> the standard-headers/, can we keep the "change the update
> script" patches separate from the "and now update the headers
> from upstream kernel commit X with the new script" parts,
> please? Otherwise it's very hard to be sure that the header
> changes are correct and that we still have an in-sync
> set of header files that aren't a patchwork of files from
> different versions. (For instance, this commit claims it is
> "from v4.20-rc5", but the rest of the header files are already
> at 4.21-rc1/5.0-rc1.)

Yes, will do.  (FWIW, the file hasn't changed between v4.20-rc5 and
v5.0-rc1).

Paolo