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Message-ID: <20071124143404.GA4826@stusta.de>
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:34:05 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>,
Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc3-mm1 make headers_check fails
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 10:58:21AM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 10:44:40AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> > >Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >
> > >>On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:54:50 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal
> > >><kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>The make headers_check fails,
> > >>>
> > >>> CHECK include/linux/usb/gadgetfs.h
> > >>> CHECK include/linux/usb/ch9.h
> > >>> CHECK include/linux/usb/cdc.h
> > >>> CHECK include/linux/usb/audio.h
> > >>> CHECK include/linux/kvm.h
> > >>>/root/kernels/linux-2.6.24-rc3/usr/include/linux/kvm.h requires
> > >>>asm/kvm.h, which does not exist in exported headers
> > >>>
> > >>hm, works for me, on i386 and x86_64. What's different over there?
> > >>
> > >Hi Andrew,
> > >
> > >It fails on the powerpc box, with allyesconfig option.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > How do we fix this? Export linux/kvm.h only on x86? Seems ugly.
>
> Is kvm x86 specific? Then move the .h file to asm-x86.
> Otherwise no good idea...
What about adding a whitelist in hdrcheck.sh?
For all practical purposes in userspace the compile error due to the
non-existing asm header should be fine, so there's no reason to change
the code in such cases.
> Sam
cu
Adrian
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