Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/11] qemu: use virtio linux headers in portable code

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Anthony Liguori <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Anthony Liguori <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>
>>>> Il 26/05/2013 22:02, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
>>>>> > My fault.  I should have looked at linux/types.h (actually asm-generic/).
>>>>> 
>>>>> Not really, __uX appear in the headers that were posted.
>>>
>>> Which is a problem because this is a reserved namespace in C99.
>>
>> Personally, I find it hard to care.  What matters is not what the
>> standard has carved out, but whether we have clashes, reserved namespace
>> or no.  And that won't happen for these.
>>
>> If someone wants to convert all the kernel headers, I won't NAK it
>> though.
>
> virtio headers are special.  Linux headers are normally only consumed in
> the kernel or in a userspace application running on Linux.
>
> virtio headers may be used either in a userspace application running on
> !Linux (we need to support QEMU on Windows) or even in a foreign kernel.

No.

s/virtio/SCSI/.  s/virtio/if_eth/.  s/virtio/TCPIP/.

Cheers,
Rusty.
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