Re: [Qemu-devel] vhost_net.c broken by --kerneldir

[Anthony Liguori]

On 08/26/2010 11:41 AM, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> On 08/26/2010 08:48 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > On 08/26/2010 10:21 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > > You forgot about developers. Developer may want to use latest kvm 
> > > kernel
> > > headers to compile code that he added to qemu to use new kernel 
> > > feature.
> >
> > The Right Way to do this is a make headers_install to a temporary 
> > directory and then -I include that directory.  Building directly from 
> > the kernel source tree was never the right thing to do.
>
> Thanks, this worked well.
>
> What are your thoughts on renaming the configure option to 
> --kernel-headers?
>
>   --kerneldir=PATH         look for kernel includes in PATH

That's fine but FWIW, --kerneldir was intended to work with a kernel 
source tree.  It's just that that's become impossible in recent kernels.

Regards,

Anthon Liguori

> Hollis Blanchard
> Mentor Graphics, Embedded Systems Division