From: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>, Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: remove the nvlink2 pci_vfio subdriver v2
Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 15:08:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210504150851.54e278f8.cohuck@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210504130039.GA7711@lst.de>
On Tue, 4 May 2021 15:00:39 +0200
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 02:59:07PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > Hi Christoph,
> > >
> > > FYI, these uapi changes break build of QEMU.
> >
> > What uapi changes?
> >
> > What exactly breaks?
> >
> > Why does QEMU require kernel driver stuff?
>
> Looks like it pull in the uapi struct definitions unconditionally
> instead of having a local copy. We could fix that by just putting
> them back, but to me this seems like a rather broken configuration
> in qemu when it pulls in headers from the running/installed kernel
> without any feature checks before using them.
>
It is not pulling them from the installed kernel, but from a
development version to get new definitions. Removing things in the
kernel requires workarounds in QEMU until it can remove those things as
well. It is not a dumb update...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-04 13:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-26 6:13 remove the nvlink2 pci_vfio subdriver v2 Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-26 6:13 ` [PATCH 1/2] vfio/pci: remove vfio_pci_nvlink2 Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-06 19:38 ` Alex Williamson
2021-04-12 9:41 ` Michael Ellerman
2021-04-12 14:23 ` Alex Williamson
2021-04-22 13:49 ` Michael Ellerman
2021-04-22 13:52 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-26 6:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/powernv: remove the nvlink support Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-04 12:22 ` remove the nvlink2 pci_vfio subdriver v2 Greg Kurz
2021-05-04 12:59 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-05-04 13:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-04 13:08 ` Cornelia Huck [this message]
2021-05-04 13:20 ` Greg Kurz
2021-05-04 13:30 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-05-04 14:11 ` Greg Kurz
2021-05-04 15:33 ` Alex Williamson
2021-05-04 14:23 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-05-04 15:53 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-04 16:30 ` Daniel Vetter
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