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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: remove the nvlink2 pci_vfio subdriver v2
Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 15:00:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210504130039.GA7711@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YJFFG1tSP0dUCxcX@kroah.com>

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-04 13:00 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 [this message]
2021-05-04 13:08       ` Cornelia Huck
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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