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From: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To: Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qemu-xen-trad: fix sys-queue.h usage on BSD systems
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 15:13:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FC77C6D.5040704@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1205311458070.26786@kaball-desktop>

Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2012, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
>> BSD systems already have a sys/queue.h file, which has more macros
>> than the one Qemu uses, and some header files depend on having that
>> macros defined (sys/disk.h for example). Disable sys-queue.h on BSD
>> systems and include the native one.
>>
>> This is not a backport because the original patch is too dificult to
>> backport, it's commit 72cf2d4f0e181d0d3a3122e04129c58a95da713e.
>
> The upstream commit message states:
>
> "Problem: Our file sys-queue.h is a copy of the BSD file, but there are
> some additions and it's not entirely compatible. Because of that, there
> have been conflicts with system headers on BSD systems."
>
> Wouldn't this be a problem if we apply the simple patch below?

Doing a diff -bB shows that the Qemu version is just a stripped version 
of the original NetBSD header, with many macros removed, but no new ones 
added, so I think the patch is safe.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-31 14:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-30 16:12 [PATCH] qemu-xen-trad: fix sys-queue.h usage on BSD systems Roger Pau Monne
2012-05-31 13:59 ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-05-31 14:13   ` Roger Pau Monne [this message]
2012-05-31 14:16     ` Stefano Stabellini
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-06-01 10:57 Roger Pau Monne
2012-06-01 10:59 ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-06-07 18:46   ` Ian Jackson

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