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Subject: Re: [PATCH][TRIVIAL] checksum.h header fixes for 2.4
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Eric Weigle <ehw@lanl.gov>
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On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 20:06, Eric Weigle wrote:
> I'm making a loadable module that will send IP packets; and need to do IP
> checksums. Unfortunately a simple #include of checksum.h fails because that
> file does not itself include the headers required to compile correctly.
> Several of the arch-specific files are this way.

Include the other files you need first. The kernel headers are not
really intended to always include everything you might want. That
rapidly becomes unmanagable

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