On 28/07/2017 14:13, Cornelia Huck wrote:
>>> But would it not a better idea to add an entry for all headers touched
>>> by update-linux-headers, then?  
>>
>> One thing doesn't exclude the other.  That entry would also list the
>> script itself and linux-headers.  KVM, VFIO and virtio patterns can only
>> list the files they care about.  Migration could list userfaultfd,
>> possibly.  And there's also include/standard-headers/, which includes
>> PCI and input subsystem files...  It has to be perfected, but it's a
>> good idea.
> 
> Personally, I'm not really a fan. If something is changed in one of the
> headers, it implies that either it has already been changed in the
> original headers in Linux (and I will have seen it then), or that
> someone is sending a preliminary patch (and I should hope that I'm
> already cc:ed for the changes that this headers change is for then). It
> does not really hurt, but it feels wrong.

Sometime people pull changes too early, or otherwise I want to comment
on the timing of the change... I don't know, I already get too much
qemu-devel email. :)

Paolo

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