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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1608091101220.22028@cbobk.fhfr.pm> Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 11:02:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: qdisc hash table changes... On Tue, 9 Aug 2016, David Miller wrote: > > It does indirectly pull in some networking headers, but it doesn't pull in > > netdevice.h (which is the place where the actual include of hashtable.h > > happens): > > It pulls in skbuff.h, so are you willing to bet forever that skbuff.h > won't indirectly pull in netdevice.h at some point in the future? > > This is obviously a big problem, having global namespace conflicts > like this. > > Pushing fixing it propering into the future isn't really the right > thing to do. > > So please entertain my request to do this properly. Ok, I will add this to my TODO list, but this can take quite some time (especially as I can imagine some maintainers pushing back on this, because it doesn't really fix any existing issue in their code). Does that strictly have to be a show-stopper for the qdisc hash conversion, given the fact that the whole tree is building properly? > Thank you. Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
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