Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: iproute2 and 2.6.9 kernel headers (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] iproute2 2.6.9-041019) | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:41:25 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 11:41 +0200, Harald Welte wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:00:17AM +0200, Harald Welte wrote: > > I'll take care of this. sorry fort he inconvenience. > > I should actually read mails befor replying ;) I thought the bug was in > lnstat - but apparently it wasn't. > > The include bug seems non-trivial to fix. (how do I hate kernel include > from userspace issues): > > apparently __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES is definde somewhere (glibc?) which > prevents __le16, __le64 and others from being defined in linux/types.h. > > Just reietting it like this doesn't help much:
No, it wouldn't.
The time has come to fix it properly instead. Anything which these tools actually need from the kernel headers should be moved into a separate header file (still in the kernel source) which is usable from _both_ kernel and userspace. It should use standard types (like uint16_t etc) instead of kernel-private types, and shouldn't have any #if{n,}def __KERNEL__ in it. Ideally, it would be in a different directory too -- but we can worry about that later.
-- dwmw2
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