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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:06:35 +0200 From: Abdoulaye Walsimou GAYE <awg@...toolkit.org> To: musl@...ts.openwall.com CC: Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx> Subject: Re: Clash between 'netinet/if_ether.h' and 'linux/if_ether.h' On 10/09/2012 01:33 AM, Rich Felker wrote: > On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 12:45:17AM +0200, Abdoulaye Walsimou GAYE wrote: >> Hello, >> While trying to compile busybox-1.20.2, the following issue raised: >> >> CC networking/ifplugd.o >> In file included from /home/walsimou/embtoolkit.git/sysroot-armel-linux-arm920t/usr/include/net/ethernet.h:10:0, >> from networking/ifplugd.c:41: >> /home/walsimou/embtoolkit.git/sysroot-armel-linux-arm920t/usr/include/netinet/if_ether.h:75:8: error: redefinition of 'struct ethhdr' >> /home/walsimou/embtoolkit.git/sysroot-armel-linux-arm920t/usr/include/linux/if_ether.h:127:8: note: originally defined here >> >> Note that uClibc strategy here is to include linux/if_ether.h > It's a bug to be including linux/if_ether.h, and there's no way to > work around this without depending on kernel headers, which musl will > not do for two reasons: > > 1. We can't control conformance issues and/or breakage if they expose > crap into the namespace that they shouldn't be exposing, and this > tends to vary by version. > > 2. It makes it so you can't build or use musl without kernel headers. > > It should be a one-line patch to fix ifplugd. > > Rich Hi Rich, I understand your point to not pollute the namespace, but there is others files under linux/ doing #include <linux/if_ether.h>. linux/ethtool.h:17:#include <linux/if_ether.h> linux/if_tun.h:20:#include <linux/if_ether.h> linux/if_bonding.h:48:#include <linux/if_ether.h> linux/virtio_net.h:31:#include <linux/if_ether.h> linux/netfilter_bridge.h:8:#include <linux/if_ether.h> linux/bpqether.h:9:#include <linux/if_ether.h> linux/netdevice.h:29:#include <linux/if_ether.h> linux/if_fddi.h:12: * if_fddi.h is based on previous if_ether.h and if_tr.h work by linux/if_arcnet.h:20:#include <linux/if_ether.h> linux/atmlec.h:13:#include <linux/if_ether.h> linux/if_pppox.h:24:#include <linux/if_ether.h> linux/if_ether.h:8: * Version: @(#)if_ether.h 1.0.1a 02/08/94 linux/netfilter_bridge/ebtables.h:17:#include <linux/if_ether.h> Does it means all these files should not be used in userspace application beside netinet/if_ether.h? Or does it means that these files should not be exported to userspace headers or should include <netinet/if_ether.h> instead? If yes, then It's a bug and should be reported to upstream kernel network maintainers. AWG,
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