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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: vapier@gentoo.org
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org, bhutchings@solarflare.com,
	yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, amwang@redhat.com, tmb@mageia.org,
	eblake@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, libvirt-list@redhat.com,
	tgraf@suug.ch, schwab@suse.de, carlos@systemhalted.org
Subject: Re: Redefinition of struct in6_addr in <netinet/in.h> and <linux/in6.h>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:57:44 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130116.135744.697469565804508454.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201301161205.04502.vapier@gentoo.org>

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:04:56 -0500

> certainly true, but the current expectation is that you don't mix your ABIs.  
> if you're programming with the C library API, then use the C library headers.  
> if you're banging directly on the kernel, then use the kernel headers.  not 
> saying it's a perfect solution, but it works for the vast majority of use 
> cases.

This isn't how real life works.

GLIBC itself brings in some of the kernel headers, as do various library
headers for libraries other than glibc.

So you can get these conflicting headers included indirectly, and it is
of no fault of any of the various parties involved.

We have to make them work when included at the same time somehow, and
this is totally unavoidable.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-16 18:57 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       ` the patch "bridge: export multicast database via netlink" broke kernel 3.8 uapi (was: Re: [libvirt] " Cong Wang
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 [this message]
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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