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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ben@decadent.org.uk
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, 538372@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6] Revert "net: Support inclusion of <linux/socket.h> before <sys/socket.h>"
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:09:24 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091111.190924.27363037.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1257995115.2237.90.camel@localhost>

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:05:15 +0000

> <linux/netlink.h> will not compile for userland, because
> <linux/socket.h> is no longer defining sa_family_t.  For userland, this
> should be defined by <sys/socket.h>.

Still, you still essentially have two choices:

1) Tell userland, sorry you need to include sys/socket.h before
   other "socket stuff" and that means linux/netlink.h in
   particular

2) Put a !__KERNEL__ sys/socket.h include in there, but that's
   asking for trouble.

Ok?

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-12  3:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-12  2:00 [PATCH net-2.6] Revert "net: Support inclusion of <linux/socket.h> before <sys/socket.h>" Ben Hutchings
2009-11-12  2:51 ` David Miller
2009-11-12  3:05   ` Ben Hutchings
2009-11-12  3:09     ` David Miller [this message]
2009-11-12  3:38       ` Ben Hutchings

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