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From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] tc: fix compilation with old gcc (< 4.6)
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 14:56:55 +0100
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On 01/07/2016 02:31 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 01/07/2016 02:03 PM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
>> From: Julien Floret <julien.floret@6wind.com>
>>
>> gcc < 4.6 does not handle C11 syntax for the static initialization of
>> anonymous struct/union, hence the following error:
>>
>> tc_bpf.c:260: error: unknown field map_type specified in initializer
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Julien Floret <julien.floret@6wind.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>

Btw, for iproute2's net-next branch there're couple of other occasions
as well. Stephen, how do you prefer to handle this? Should a separate
patch be done against net-next branch to reduce merge conflicts?