Re: [Qemu-devel] [v2][RFC][PATCH] virtio: uniform virtio device IDs

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 05:25:29PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
> On (Mon) 09 Feb 2015 [20:57:42], Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 01:41:26PM +0800, Tiejun Chen wrote:
> > > Actually we define these device IDs in virtio standard, so
> > > we'd better put them into one common place to manage conveniently.
> > > Here I also add VIRTIO_ID_RESERVE according to virtio spec.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <address@hidden>
> > 
> > So I just posted a script that pulls in headers from
> > a linux tree, doing minor changes required to
> > make the headers portable, such as
> > linux/types.h -> inttypes.h
> 
> We used to do this for kvm headers earlier..
> 
> Anyway I don't feel strongly about it.  Cornelia's objection that it
> doesn't work on non-Linux hosts also holds..
> 
>               Amit

Imported headers clearly can work on non linux hosts.

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