Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261676AbTI3TAn (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:00:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261677AbTI3TAn (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:00:43 -0400 Received: from codepoet.org ([166.70.99.138]:32901 "EHLO mail.codepoet.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261676AbTI3TAk (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:00:40 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:00:40 -0600 From: Erik Andersen To: Andreas Steinmetz Cc: Jens Axboe , Joerg Schilling , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel includefile bug not fixed after a year :-( Message-ID: <20030930190039.GA5407@codepoet.org> Reply-To: andersen@codepoet.org Mail-Followup-To: Erik Andersen , Andreas Steinmetz , Jens Axboe , Joerg Schilling , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200309301144.h8UBiUUF004315@burner.fokus.fraunhofer.de> <20030930115411.GL2908@suse.de> <3F797316.2010401@domdv.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F797316.2010401@domdv.de> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.19-rmk7, Rebel-NetWinder(Intel StrongARM 110 rev 3), 185.95 BogoMips X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue Sep 30, 2003 at 02:12:06PM +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > > > >I think I do. > > > > > >>In order to use kernel interfaces you _need_ to include kernel include > >>files. > > > > > >False. You need to include the glibc kernel headers. > > > Then please tell me why PPPIOCNEWUNIT is only defined in linux/if_ppp.h > and not net/if_ppp.h which is still true for glibc-2.3.2. And please > don't tell me to ask the glibc folks. There are inconsistencies between > kernel headers and userland headers which force the inclusion of kernel > headers in userland applications. Wrong. Userland applications should make private copies of all needed kernel defines and structures, and then change any kernel types to use standard C99 types from stdint.h. -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/