netdev - Re: [GLIBC Patch v2] inet: avoid redefinition of some structs in kernel

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Message-Id: <201308260126.06626.vapier@gentoo.org>
Date:	Mon, 26 Aug 2013 01:26:04 -0400
From:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
To:	libc-alpha@...rceware.org
Cc:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Thomas Backlund <tmb@...eia.org>,
	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	"Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [GLIBC Patch v2] inet: avoid redefinition of some structs in kernel

On Thursday 15 August 2013 05:28:11 Cong Wang wrote:
> From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@...hat.com>
> 
> - Synchronize linux's `include/uapi/linux/in6.h'
>   with glibc's `inet/netinet/in.h'.
> - Synchronize glibc's `inet/netinet/in.h with linux's
>   `include/uapi/linux/in6.h'.
> - Allow including the headers in either other.
> - First header included defines the structures and macros.
> 
> Notes:
> - You want netinet/in.h to include bits/in.h as early as possible,
>   but it needs in_addr so define in_addr early.
> - You want bits/in.h included as early as possible so you can use
>   the linux specific code to define __USE_KERNEL_DEFS based on
>   the _UAPI_* macro definition and use those to cull in.h.
> - glibc was missing IPPROTO_MH, added here.

can we get something better documented here in a central location ?  having 
the names laid out in a git commit message and in a few leaf headers does not 
lend itself to being easily discoverable.
-mike

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