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Date:	Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:12:01 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
CC:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, mingo@...e.hu,
	x86@...nel.org, sam@...nborg.org, hpa@...or.com,
	jirislaby@...il.com, gregkh@...e.de, davem@...emloft.net,
	xyzzy@...akeasy.org, arnd@...db.de, mchehab@...radead.org,
	jens.axboe@...cle.com, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL -tip] fix 22 make headers_check - 200901

Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 17:43 +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
>   
>> Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org> wrote:
>>     
>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm.h
>>> index b95162a..d2e3bf3 100644
>>> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm.h
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm.h
>>> @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
>>>  *
>>>  */
>>>
>>> -#include <asm/types.h>
>>> +#include <linux/types.h>
>>> #include <linux/ioctl.h>
>>>       
>> Awesome, you've just broken the userspace build of kvm as the
>> file linux/types.h conflicts with sys/types.h.
>>
>>     
>
> What I did is absolutely right.
>
>   

It was, though I'd have been happy to know about it in advance (maybe 
you did notify me; I was on vacation and haven't cleared the backlog yet).

> If there is any conflict then we need to solve it in better way.
>
> Can you please share what is the conflict and what you are expecting and
> what you are getting.
>   

I've already fixed kvm-userspace.git.

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.

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