On 2011-05-03 18:55, Avi Kivity wrote: > 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. What downsides do you see? > > (though for commit log cleanliness, the scripts and the headers should > be in separate commits) > I'll split up in thread parts: script, headers, build system changes. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- 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
