David Miller wrote:
From: "Greg Steuck" <greg@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 11:44:56 -0700I ran make headers_install in 2.6.25 tree and the installed netfilter.h is not complete. Namely, it declares union nf_inet_addr { __u32 all[4]; __be32 ip; __be32 ip6[4]; ... } The __u32, __be32 types are declared in <linux/types.h> and the #include directive is removed by the installation process. This in turn makes some applications unbuildable against such an exported tree, e.g. busybox-1.10.1/networking/tcpudp.c:#include <linux/netfilter_ipv4.h> If I correctly understand the purpose of make headers_install, it is supposed to generate an API for applications. I could certainly make tcpudp.c include linux/types.h, but given that the application does not even use nf_inet_addr, this would be the wrong place for the fix.
These types are used by countless header files. I don't know why types.h is stripped, I guess this question can be best answered by whoever maintains the header-install stuff (Sam? I don't know). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
