From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Sebastien Bacher <sebastien.bacher@canonical.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ebtables PATCH] include: drop bundled copy of linux/types.h
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2026 15:23:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <asZHwYyb0rlYXlYC@strlen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD04=wrZafKknWixGGRZWtYD_ydfdL4Uk39s_RkwZ6WUEVATKg@mail.gmail.com>
Sebastien Bacher <sebastien.bacher@canonical.com> wrote:
> The bundled include/linux/types.h is a copy of the kernel UAPI header
> from v3.16. Since the build uses -I./include, it shadows the system
> <linux/types.h>.
>
> Recent kernel UAPI headers (v7.3) changed arm64's asm/sigcontext.h,
> included via <signal.h>, to use the __u128 type from linux/types.h:
>
> - __uint128_t vregs[32];
> + __u128 vregs[32];
>
> The stale copy lacks __u128, so the build fails on arm64:
>
> /usr/include/aarch64-linux-gnu/asm/sigcontext.h:81:9: error: unknown
> type name '__u128'; did you mean '__u32'?
>
> The system header provides everything the bundled copy did, so drop it.
Applied, thanks.
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2026-10-07 11:25 [ebtables PATCH] include: drop bundled copy of linux/types.h Sebastien Bacher
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