Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 May 2008 11:56:55 +0200 | From | Patrick McHardy <> | Subject | Re: include/linux/netfilter.h after make headers_install is incomplete |
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David Miller wrote: > From: "Greg Steuck" <greg@nest.cx> > Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 11:44:56 -0700 > >> I ran make headers_install in 2.6.25 tree and the installed netfilter.h is >> not complete. Namely, it declares >> union nf_inet_addr { >> __u32 all[4]; >> __be32 ip; >> __be32 ip6[4]; >> ... >> } >> >> The __u32, __be32 types are declared in <linux/types.h> and the #include >> directive is removed by the installation process. This in turn makes some >> applications unbuildable against such an exported tree, e.g. >> >> busybox-1.10.1/networking/tcpudp.c:#include <linux/netfilter_ipv4.h> >> >> If I correctly understand the purpose of make headers_install, it is >> supposed to generate an API for applications. I could certainly >> make tcpudp.c include linux/types.h, but given that the application >> does not even use nf_inet_addr, this would be the wrong place for >> the fix.
These types are used by countless header files. I don't know why types.h is stripped, I guess this question can be best answered by whoever maintains the header-install stuff (Sam? I don't know).
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