Am 15.07.2010 13:59, schrieb Pablo Neira Ayuso: > On 15/07/10 11:19, Patrick McHardy wrote: >> 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? > > Including it doesn't fix the problem here: > > #include <linux/types.h> > #include <linux/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.h> > > I still get: > > /usr/include/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.h:28: error: expected > specifier-qualifier-list before ‘aligned_be64’ > > aligned_be64 is only define in the kernel (it's included under the > __KERNEL__ definition). > In that case I think we should export a __aligned_be64 in types.h and use that instead of aligned_be64. -- 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
