Am 12.07.2010 19:00, schrieb Pablo Neira Ayuso: > Currently, libnl and libnetfilter_queue include in one of their > user-space header files an ad-hoc definition of aligned_be64. > However, applications that use the BSD socket API to communicate > via Netlink sockets (ie. those that do not use these libraries) > would need to define this type by hand if they include the > kernel-space header nfnetlink_queue.h. > > This patch adds the definition of aligned_bed64 for user-space > applications in the kernel header. Otherwise, they have to define > it to avoid the following compilation problem: > > /usr/include/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.h:28: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘aligned_be64’ Why can't these applications simply include linux/types.h? > I know, this is ugly but I think that user-space Netlink applications > should compile with the only need of including the kernel-space > header that contains the protocol definitions. I disagree, it makes no sense to re-define this for every header file. They can either include linux/types.h, or we could automatically include it in the files requiring it. -- 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
