From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Vrabel Subject: Re: iproute2 and 2.6.9 kernel headers (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] iproute2 2.6.9-041019) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:52:28 +0100 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <4176517C.4090504@arcom.com> References: <41758014.4080502@osdl.org> <20041020070017.GA19899@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org> <20041020094123.GF19899@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org> <1098268885.3872.81.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Harald Welte , Jeff Chua , Stephen Hemminger , Linux Kernel , netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl Return-path: To: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <1098268885.3872.81.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David Woodhouse wrote: > > The time has come to fix it properly instead. Anything which these tools > actually need from the kernel headers should be moved into a separate > header file (still in the kernel source) which is usable from _both_ > kernel and userspace. Isn't this what linux-libc-headers is for? > It should use standard types (like uint16_t etc) Why doesn't the kernel use these standard types also? David Vrabel -- David Vrabel, Design Engineer Arcom, Clifton Road Tel: +44 (0)1223 411200 ext. 3233 Cambridge CB1 7EA, UK Web: http://www.arcom.com/