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Date:	Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:27:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ben@...adent.org.uk
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, paulus@...ba.org, linux-ppp@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/12] headers, ppp: Add missing #include to
 <linux/if_ppp.h>

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:25:19 +0100

> <linux/if_ppp.h> uses various types defined in <linux/ppp_defs.h>.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>

Unfortunately there is a "net/if_ppp.h" provided by glibc that
includes "net/ppp_defs.h", and all of this is presumably in order
to discourage direct use of the kernel headers.

Even though net/ppp_defs.h ends up including linux/ppp_defs.h
anyways.

Whilst I think your efforts are to be commended, we can't start doing
or else we'll start breaking the build in various unexpected ways.

The SIOCDEVPRIVATE (defined by GLIBC in bits/ioctls.h) case is just
one such example.
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