On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 21:57 +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 13 May 2009 08:32:21 Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > Currently we only include $(KERNELDIR)/include in CFLAGS, > > but we also have $(KERNELDIR)/arch/$(arch)/include or else > > we'll get mis-matched headers. > > > > I think this is fundamentally wrong. User files should never directly > access kernel headers,
Just to be more clear on the use case for this patch - it's needed to allow building kvmtrace against the copy of kvm kernel headers carried in the qemu-kvm-0.10.4 release tarball. > because they are postprocessed in various > ways in order to get files that are valid in user space, e.g. __user > annotations are removed. > > The three possible sources for kernel headers are: > > /usr/include > - system provided headers, may be older than the running kernel > /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/usr/include > - user space headers for the currently running kernel > $(KERNELDIR)/usr/include > - user space headers from a configured kernel tree after 'make > headers_install' Cheers, Mark. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
