Re: [kvm-ppc-devel] [kvm-devel] [PATCH 1 of 4] Add "make sync" to sync need kernel headers to kvm-userspace

[Anthony L. <an...@co...>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>   
>> It would be nice to just be able to build kvm from git without a kernel
>> around.  The lack of that is what in fact keeps from hacking kvm
>> userspace currently.
>>   
>>     
>
> It would be nice, but committing all header changes twice is not so nice 
> and error prone as well.
>
> Anyone serious about hacking kvm-userspace would not be deterred by the 
> additional clone.
>
> [maybe we can provide an automatically-generated git tree that has only 
> the kernel headers?]
>   

Then people will simply find something else to complain about :-)

I think as we split libkvm into it's own library and remove the 
dependency of kernel headers from libkvm consumers, this will stop being 
a problem in practice.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori