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From: David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>,
	Jeff Chua <jeffchua@silk.corp.fedex.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-net@vger.kernel.org,
	LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl
Subject: Re: iproute2 and 2.6.9 kernel headers (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] iproute2 2.6.9-041019)
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:52:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4176517C.4090504@arcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1098268885.3872.81.camel@baythorne.infradead.org>

David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> 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.

Isn't this what linux-libc-headers is for?

> It should use standard types (like uint16_t etc)

Why doesn't the kernel use these standard types also?

David Vrabel
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David Vrabel, Design Engineer

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-20 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-19 20:59 [LARTC] [ANNOUNCE] iproute2 2.6.9-041019 Stephen Hemminger
2004-10-19 20:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-10-20  0:21 ` Jeff Chua
2004-10-20  7:00   ` [LARTC] " Harald Welte
2004-10-20  7:00     ` Harald Welte
2004-10-20  9:41     ` [LARTC] iproute2 and 2.6.9 kernel headers (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] iproute2 2.6.9-041019) Harald Welte
2004-10-20  9:41       ` Harald Welte
2004-10-20 10:41       ` David Woodhouse
2004-10-20 11:52         ` David Vrabel [this message]
2004-10-20 12:19           ` David Woodhouse
2004-10-20 16:15   ` [LARTC] Re: [ANNOUNCE] iproute2 2.6.9-041019 Stephen Hemminger
2004-10-20 16:15     ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-10-21  2:53     ` Jeff Chua
2004-10-20 16:18   ` [LARTC] " Stephen Hemminger
2004-10-20 16:18     ` Stephen Hemminger

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