On 22.11.2010 14:52, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Sunday 2010-11-21 22:47, Marek Kierdelewicz wrote: >> >> I'm writing a new netfilter module and I'm using xtables-addons[...] >> Iptables userspace plugin for the module needs definition of "struct >> nf_nat_multi_range", so I added following line to libxt_xxxx.c: >> #include <net/netfilter/nf_nat.h> >> Unfortunately I get following message during make: >> warning: net/netfilter/nf_nat.h: No such file or directory >> ... and compilation fails. >> I was able to make it work by copying nf_nat.h and nf_conntrack_tuple.h >> to extension directory in xtables-addons tree and by modifying include >> in libxt_xxxx.c to "nf_nat.h", but this doesn't seem to be the proper >> way of doing things. > > Well, iptables also copies them rather than properly relying on > something from <linux/*>. Yes, it's not proper. Patrick should know > the details about the what and why. Mainly to allow to compile new extensions before the kernel headers are updated. Including files from include/net is wrong though, they should be moved to include/linux instead. -- 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
