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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] net: netmap: Fix compilation issue
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To: Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>, Giuseppe Lettieri <g.lettieri@iet.unipi.it>, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>

Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com> writes:

> 2015-11-05 16:01 GMT+01:00 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>:
>> On 11/05/2015 07:52 AM, Vincenzo Maffione wrote:
>>> No worries.
>>>
>>> It needs --enable-netmap (default is --disable-netmap on linux), and
>>> --extra-cflags=-I/path/to/netmap/sys for netmap API headers.
>>>
>>> (netmap code is avaliable here https://github.com/luigirizzo/netmap)
>>
>> Default-off tends to bit-rot; default-probe is slightly better (compile
>> if /path/to/netmap/sys is found during configure, otherwise not).  But
>> not the end of the world.
>
> The default-off decision was taken at the time when netmap was merged
> in (see the
> "[PATCH v3] net: Adding netmap network backend" thread).
> The qemu ./configure already has support for probing netmap headers,
> so we could actually switch to default-on also on linux (like it
> happens for freebsd qemu build).
>
> Thanks for the pointer to the headers. Any
>> idea if someone is trying to package netmap development headers for Fedora?
>
> No idea, unfortunately. I personally maintain an AUR package for
> Archlinux (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/netmap/), that's all I
> know. Having netmap headers packaged in some distributions is
> something we were willing to do, but still nothing has been done,
> afaik.

As long as netmap isn't packaged in at least one distro we actually
compile-test before merge into master, enabling it automatically won't
do squat for avoiding bitrot.