On Tue, 4 May 2021 15:00:39 +0200 Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 02:59:07PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > Hi Christoph, > > > > > > FYI, these uapi changes break build of QEMU. > > > > What uapi changes? > > > > What exactly breaks? > > > > Why does QEMU require kernel driver stuff? > > Looks like it pull in the uapi struct definitions unconditionally > instead of having a local copy. We could fix that by just putting > them back, but to me this seems like a rather broken configuration > in qemu when it pulls in headers from the running/installed kernel > without any feature checks before using them. > It is not pulling them from the installed kernel, but from a development version to get new definitions. Removing things in the kernel requires workarounds in QEMU until it can remove those things as well. It is not a dumb update...
