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.

David

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