From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Backlund <tmb@mageia.org>
Cc: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
libvirt-list@redhat.com, tgraf@suug.ch
Subject: Re: the patch "bridge: export multicast database via netlink" broke kernel 3.8 uapi (was: Re: [libvirt] if_bridge.h: include in6.h for struct in6_addr use)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:11:28 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1358244688.4264.7.camel@cr0> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50F52956.50201@mageia.org>
On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 12:03 +0200, Thomas Backlund wrote:
> Eric Blake skrev 15.1.2013 01:57:
> > On 01/13/2013 01:05 PM, Thomas Backlund wrote:
> >> Thomas Backlund skrev 13.1.2013 20:38:
> >>> patch both inline and attached as thunderbird tends to mess up ...
> >>
> >>> -----
> >>>
> >>> if_bridge.h uses struct in6_addr ip6; but does not include the in6.h
> >>> header.
> >>>
> >>> Found by trying to build libvirt and connman against 3.8-rc3 headers.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Ok,
> >> ignore this patch, it's not the correct fix as it introduces
> >> redefinitions...
> >>
> >> Btw, the error that I hit that made me suggest this fix was libvirt
> >> config check bailing out:
> >>
> >> config.log:/usr/include/linux/if_bridge.h:173:20: error: field 'ip6' has
> >> incomplete type
> >
> > Hmm, just now noticing this thread, after independently hitting and and
> > having to work around the same problem in libvirt:
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-January/msg00930.html
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=895141
>
>
> Yep,
>
> and the commit breaking uapi headers is by using "struct in6_addr ip6" is:
>
>
> From ee07c6e7a6f8a25c18f0a6b18152fbd7499245f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:04:48 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] bridge: export multicast database via netlink
Does the following patch help?
$ git diff include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h
b/include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h
index 5db2975..653db23 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#define _UAPI_LINUX_IF_BRIDGE_H
#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/in6.h>
#define SYSFS_BRIDGE_ATTR "bridge"
#define SYSFS_BRIDGE_FDB "brforward"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-15 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-13 18:38 if_bridge.h: include in6.h for struct in6_addr use Thomas Backlund
2013-01-13 20:05 ` Thomas Backlund
2013-01-14 23:57 ` [libvirt] " Eric Blake
2013-01-15 10:03 ` [libvirt] the patch "bridge: export multicast database via netlink" broke kernel 3.8 uapi (was: Re: if_bridge.h: include in6.h for struct in6_addr use) Thomas Backlund
2013-01-15 10:11 ` Cong Wang [this message]
2013-01-15 10:55 ` the patch "bridge: export multicast database via netlink" broke kernel 3.8 uapi Thomas Backlund
2013-01-16 5:51 ` Cong Wang
2013-01-16 6:06 ` Redefinition of struct in6_addr in <netinet/in.h> and <linux/in6.h> Cong Wang
2013-01-16 14:21 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2013-01-16 15:47 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-01-16 17:04 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-01-16 17:10 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-01-16 17:28 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-01-16 18:59 ` David Miller
2013-01-16 19:22 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-01-16 19:25 ` David Miller
2013-01-17 3:40 ` Cong Wang
2013-01-17 3:55 ` [libvirt] " Jike Song
2013-01-17 6:59 ` Cong Wang
2013-01-17 7:02 ` Cong Wang
2013-01-16 18:57 ` David Miller
2013-01-16 19:29 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-01-17 2:15 ` Carlos O'Donell
2013-01-17 3:10 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2013-01-17 3:15 ` David Miller
2013-01-18 4:20 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-01-18 4:22 ` Carlos O'Donell
2013-01-18 4:34 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-01-18 10:44 ` Pedro Alves
2013-01-18 13:35 ` Carlos O'Donell
2013-01-18 14:24 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2013-01-18 14:36 ` Pedro Alves
2013-01-18 14:54 ` Carlos O'Donell
2013-01-21 0:54 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-01-17 3:22 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2013-01-18 4:13 ` Carlos O'Donell
2013-01-16 21:45 ` David Miller
2013-01-17 1:58 ` Carlos O'Donell
2013-01-17 2:05 ` David Miller
2013-01-17 10:57 ` Jan Engelhardt
2013-01-18 4:14 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-01-18 4:55 ` David Miller
2013-01-18 5:27 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-03-13 15:17 ` [libvirt] if_bridge.h: include in6.h for struct in6_addr use Kumar Gala
2013-03-13 16:24 ` Eric Blake
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