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SubjectRe: Kernel headers - linux-atm userspace build broken by recent change; __be16 undefined
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 09:22:52PM +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote:
> Don't know exactly when this change went in, but it's not in 2.6.18.3
> and is in 2.6.19.2+
>
> $ diff linux/include/linux/if_arp.h linux-2.6/include/linux/if_arp.h
> 133,134c133,134
> < unsigned short ar_hrd; /* format of hardware address */
> < unsigned short ar_pro; /* format of protocol address */
> ---
> > __be16 ar_hrd; /* format of hardware address */
> > __be16 ar_pro; /* format of protocol address */
> 137c137
> < unsigned short ar_op; /* ARP opcode (command) */
> ---
> > __be16 ar_op; /* ARP opcode (command) */
>
>
> This causes the linux-atm userspace compile to fail like this:
>
> In file included from arp.c:19:
> /usr/include/linux/if_arp.h:133: error: expected
> specifier-qualifier-list before '__be16'
>
> I guess if_arp.h needs to include include/linux/byteorder/big_endian.h?

No, linux/types.h

But what bothers me more about if_arp.h is that it is one of the
headers using "struct sockaddr" in userspace, but as far as I can see we
aren't exporting it in any header.

This seems to work since glibc is providing the struct, but this looks
a bit fishy.

> Andrew Walrond

cu
Adrian

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