linux-kernel - Re: include/linux/netfilter.h after make headers

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Date:	Wed, 21 May 2008 12:31:45 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, greg@...t.cx,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: include/linux/netfilter.h after make headers_install is incomplete

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:56:55AM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> David Miller wrote:
>>> From: "Greg Steuck" <greg@...t.cx>
>>> Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 11:44:56 -0700
>>>
>>>> I ran make headers_install in 2.6.25 tree and the installed netfilter.h is
>>>> not complete. Namely, it declares
>>>> union nf_inet_addr {
>>>>      __u32           all[4];
>>>>      __be32          ip;
>>>>      __be32          ip6[4];
>>>> ...
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> The __u32, __be32 types are declared in <linux/types.h> and the #include
>>>> directive is removed by the installation process. This in turn makes some
>>>> applications unbuildable against such an exported tree, e.g.
>>>>
>>>> busybox-1.10.1/networking/tcpudp.c:#include <linux/netfilter_ipv4.h>
>>>>
>>>> If I correctly understand the purpose of make headers_install, it is
>>>> supposed to generate an API for applications. I could certainly
>>>> make tcpudp.c include linux/types.h, but given that the application
>>>> does not even use nf_inet_addr, this would be the wrong place for
>>>> the fix.
>> These types are used by countless header files. I don't know
>> why types.h is stripped, I guess this question can be best
>> answered by whoever maintains the header-install stuff (Sam?
>> I don't know).
> 
> Everything inside
> #ifdef __KERNEL__
> ...
> #endif
> 
> are stripped.


I didn't notice the ifdef around the include statement, this makes
sense of course.

I'll fix it up, thanks Sam.
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