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Re: [PATCH] uapi: fix linux/if.h userspace compilation errors

From "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] uapi: fix linux/if.h userspace compilation errors
Date 2017-02-22 03:30 +0100
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On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 11:19:14PM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 12:10:22PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> > From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>
> > Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 14:58:41 +0300
> > 
> > > Include <sys/socket.h> (guarded by ifndef __KERNEL__) to fix
> > > the following linux/if.h userspace compilation errors:
> > 
> > Wouldn't it be so much better to do this in include/uapi/linux/socket.h?
[...]
> We can try to workaround these ancient <time.h> against <linux/time.h>
> and <sys/uio.h> against <linux/uio.h> conflicts on uapi side by
> introducing __UAPI_DEF_TIMESPEC, __UAPI_DEF_TIMEVAL, and __UAPI_DEF_IOVEC
> guards, but these workarounds will work only one way (when libc headers
> are included before uapi ones) until glibc catches up, and the latter
> may take a lot of time.

OK, these conflicts need to be fixed regardless of the way how
struct sockaddr related uapi compilation errors are fixed.
I'll submit these fixes shortly.


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ldv

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[PATCH] uapi: fix linux/if.h userspace compilation errors "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org> - 2017-02-20 13:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] uapi: fix linux/if.h userspace compilation errors David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-02-21 18:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] uapi: fix linux/if.h userspace compilation errors "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org> - 2017-02-21 21:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] uapi: fix linux/if.h userspace compilation errors "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org> - 2017-02-22 03:30 +0100
        [PATCH 1/2] uapi: add a compatibility layer between linux/time.h and glibc "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org> - 2017-02-22 03:30 +0100
        [PATCH 2/2] uapi: add a compatibility layer between linux/uio.h and glibc "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org> - 2017-02-22 03:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] uapi: fix linux/if.h userspace compilation errors David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-02-22 22:20 +0100

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