Re: kernel headers ethtool.h and mii.h

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger osdl org>]

On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 11:12:16 -0500
Robert Love <rml novell com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 10:57 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> > Yes, it appears that we do.
> 
> Alright.  I'll look into patching our glibc, too.  In the meantime, the
> previous patch works.
> 
> > We have to do this for wpa.c too since somebody decided it was cool to
> > use kernel types in wpa_supplicant.  Whatever.
> 
> Ugh.
> 
> On a similar vein -- I am seeing a problem (reported weeks ago by
> someone else) with more recent wireless-tools.  It seems some things use
> <net/if.h> and others <linux/if.h>.  Unfortunately, they define much the
> same stuff (ifmap, ifreq, and ifconf structures being the troublemakers)
> and thus break compilation.
> 
> Not sure an easy solution for that, although a quick-hack would be to
> patch iwlib.h to always use <linux/if.h> instead of <net/if.h>.  [ The
> problem in NM's case is that we include iwlib.h and kernel headers, such
> as mii.h that use <linux/if.h>, in the same file. ]
> 
> 	Robert Love

Is there something that needs to be exported in net/if.h or is it just
application stupidity?

-- 
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger osdl org>
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