On Tuesday 03 May 2011, 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 'make update-linux-headers', optionally > specifying a kernel directory as source via 'LINUX='. > > --- > > I'm sure this is not yet perfect from technical POV (e.g. the patch to > Makefile.target looks like a hack to me, better ideas welcome), > therefore RFC and no SOB. But it should demonstrate the plan. The > workflow for adding a new KVM feature support would be first a 'make > update-linux-header LINUX=/my/local/linux' + git commit, and then the > commit of the kvm, vhost, whatever changes. > > Makefile | 17 +++++++ > Makefile.target | 2 +- > configure | 127 ++++++++----------------------------------------------- > 3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 110 deletions(-) Very nice! The old way to poke into the kernel internals was really annoying and confusing. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
