Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] update-linux-headers: Include const.h

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 16:52, Eric Farman <farman@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> On 1/6/21 2:03 PM, Peter Xu wrote:
> > Could I ask why the const.h is installed into include/standard-headers/linux
> > rather than linux-headers/linux?  When I was working on my version I failed 
> > to
> > figure out the difference.
>
> Considering the main difference is whether the header file is copied
> directly or edited with a bunch of substitutions, and const.h doesn't
> get modified by those substitutions, I suppose it could go in
> linux-headers itself.

No, it can't, because linux-headers/ only goes on the include
path when on a Linux host and on a CPU architecture with KVM support,
whereas include/standard-headers/ headers are available and
used on all host OSes/architectures.

Because include/standard-headers/linux/ethtool.h will end up
with a line
 #include "standard-headers/linux/const.h"
we need to provide a const.h in that location so that the #include
pulls in the file correctly.

thanks
-- PMM