Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 1/8] xen: import ring.h from xen

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 29/03/2017 01:54, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>>> I understand your point of view, and honestly it wouldn't be a problem
>>> doing it the way you suggested either. However, I think that going
>>> forward it will be less of a maintenance pain to keep ring.h in sync,
>>> compared to maintaining a versioned build dependency between Xen and
>>> QEMU for the compilation of one PV backend. We do have version checks
>>> in QEMU for Xen compatibility, but not for PV backends or the xenpv
>>> machine yet.
>> For the pvUSB backend I just used a mandatory macro from the header for
>> the #ifdef. The backend will signal support when it was defined during
>> build and will refuse initialization otherwise. Xen tools are able to
>> recoginze qemu support of the backend by looking into Xenstore.
> 
> What do you think of the following:

Let's just copy the header...

Paolo