Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/10] virtio: import headers from linux

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 03:41:07PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 23 May 2013 15:34, Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I'm working on adding new virtio layout to qemu.
> > The job is complicated by the fact that
> > qemu has its own copy of the virtio headers,
> > sometimes with slightly different names
> > and structure.
> > Import headers from linux instead.
> 
> Do the kernel guys guarantee that their headers will
> compile on all the platforms QEMU supports? [eg windows]
> (this isn't an issue for the current uses of linux-headers
> because we only use it for KVM support, and if KVM is
> enabled you're definitely on a Linux host.)
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM

No but at the moment there's nothing there besides harmless
defines.

But it's not like we update these things automatically.

If/when things break, we can change update-headers to strip
problematic stuff out of there.

-- 
MST