Re: Iproute2 build broken by current kernel headers

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:34:48 +0400

> On 01/10/2012 11:07 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:54:09 -0800
>> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> The update to inet diag broke compatibility with exported headers.
>>> Iproute2 uses sanitized kernel headers.
>>>
>>> gcc -D_GNU_SOURCE -O2 -Wstrict-prototypes -Wall -I../include -DRESOLVE_HOSTNAMES -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/lib/\"   -c -o ss.o ss.c
>>> ss.c: In function ‘tcp_show_netlink’:
>>> ss.c:1504:7: error: ‘struct inet_diag_req’ has no member named ‘idiag_family’
>>> make[1]: *** [ss.o] Error 1
>> 
>> The structures need to be swapped to maintain source compatibility.
>> inet_diag_req_compat needs to be renamed back to inet_diag_req
>> inet_diag_req should be named something like inet_diag_req_generic
> 
> Stephen, actually the diag modules were patched to be only binary compatible with the ss.
> In order to make it compile with new headers I've sent the patches fixing ss, here they are:
> 
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg182467.html
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg182858.html
> http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2011/12/15/45

You can't do this Pavel, what about other userspace programs which
might have been compiled against these headers?  Any data structure
exported to userspace is FIXED, can't you understand this?

You've very much handled backwards compatability terribly in these pathces,
I should have forced you let them cook for another full release cycle.
:-/