netdev - Re: [PATCH] IPVS: Move userspace definitions to include/linux/ip

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Date:	Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:42:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	horms@...ge.net.au
Cc:	lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	juliusv@...gle.com, kaber@...sh.net, vbusam@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPVS: Move userspace definitions to
 include/linux/ip_vs.h

From: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:37:57 +1000

> From: Julius Volz <juliusv@...gle.com>
> 
> Current versions of ipvsadm include "/usr/src/linux/include/net/ip_vs.h"
> directly. This file also contains kernel-only definitions. Normally, public
> definitions should live in include/linux, so this patch moves the
> definitions shared with userspace to a new file, "include/linux/ip_vs.h".
> 
> To make old ipvsadms still compile with this, the old header file includes
> the new one.
> 
> The motivation for this cleanup is the planned Netlink interface for IPVS.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@...gle.com>
> Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>

Userland exported headers need to have an entry in include/linux/Kbuild

Since this linux/ip_vs.h file is new, a new entry needs to be added there.

Thanks.
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