netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2] ipv6: sr: fix user space compilation error with old glibc

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Date:   Tue, 23 May 2017 19:27:07 +0200
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     David Lebrun <david.lebrun@...ouvain.be>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] ipv6: sr: fix user space compilation error with
 old glibc

On 05/15/2017 04:21 PM, David Lebrun wrote:
> On 05/15/2017 04:09 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> Please, no.
>>
>> The reason we put together a method by which glibc and the kernel can
>> stay out of eachother's way in header files is exactly so that we
>> don't need ifdefs that conditionally do netinet/in.h vs. using the
>> kernel header.
>>
>> There are more than a dozen other UAPI headers which make use of
>> linux/in6.h and none of them jump through hoops like what is being
>> proposed here, and that's on purpose.
>>
>> So special casing this one one header is really not the way to go.
>
> Mmmh it's true that special casing in kernel headers for a user space
> issue is not the best way to go.. I'll find a way to solve this in user
> space only.
>
> Sorry about the lousy patch.

Any new outcomes so far?

Thanks,
Daniel