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Date:   Mon, 22 May 2017 13:23:33 -0700
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Baruch Siach <baruch@...s.co.il>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add missing <sys/types.h> include

On Mon, 22 May 2017 23:09:23 +0300
Baruch Siach <baruch@...s.co.il> wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
> 
> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:24:42AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 May 2017 16:27:54 +0300
> > Baruch Siach <baruch@...s.co.il> wrote:
> >   
> > > From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
> > > 
> > > The u_intXX_t types are defined in <sys/types.h>, so it should be
> > > included before using those types. Otherwise, with certain C
> > > libraries, the build fails with:
> > > 
> > > In file included from ../include/iptables.h:4:0,
> > >                  from m_ipt.c:18:
> > > ../include/iptables_common.h:47:16: error: unknown type name ‘u_int32_t’
> > >  #define __le32 u_int32_t
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@...s.co.il>
> > > ---
> > >  include/iptables_common.h | 2 ++
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/include/iptables_common.h b/include/iptables_common.h
> > > index 9099667ffa6d..2c27a4b61fcd 100644
> > > --- a/include/iptables_common.h
> > > +++ b/include/iptables_common.h
> > > @@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ extern char *lib_dir;
> > >    extern void init_extensions(void);
> > >  #endif
> > >  
> > > +#include <sys/types.h>
> > > +
> > >  #define __be32	u_int32_t
> > >  #define __le32	u_int32_t
> > >  #define __be16	u_int16_t  
> > 
> > This include file comes from netfilter, so not going to change it in iproute2 repo.  
> 
> It turns out that this headers is unused since commit 5cd1adba79d33644 (Update 
> to current iptables headers). So this patch is no longer needed.
> 
> iptables dropped this file in commit a3732db1280 (Moves all declarations in 
> iptables_common.h to xtables.h).
> 
> baruch
> 

Ok removed the file