Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270203AbUJTL5Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:57:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270200AbUJTLyc (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:54:32 -0400 Received: from webapps.arcom.com ([194.200.159.168]:37390 "EHLO webapps.arcom.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270122AbUJTLwc (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:52:32 -0400 Message-ID: <4176517C.4090504@arcom.com> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:52:28 +0100 From: David Vrabel User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040926) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Woodhouse CC: Harald Welte , Jeff Chua , Stephen Hemminger , Linux Kernel , netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl Subject: Re: iproute2 and 2.6.9 kernel headers (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] iproute2 2.6.9-041019) References: <41758014.4080502@osdl.org> <20041020070017.GA19899@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org> <20041020094123.GF19899@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org> <1098268885.3872.81.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1098268885.3872.81.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Oct 2004 11:52:41.0234 (UTC) FILETIME=[4DA93F20:01C4B69B] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 832 Lines: 24 David Woodhouse wrote: > > The time has come to fix it properly instead. Anything which these tools > actually need from the kernel headers should be moved into a separate > header file (still in the kernel source) which is usable from _both_ > kernel and userspace. Isn't this what linux-libc-headers is for? > It should use standard types (like uint16_t etc) Why doesn't the kernel use these standard types also? David Vrabel -- David Vrabel, Design Engineer Arcom, Clifton Road Tel: +44 (0)1223 411200 ext. 3233 Cambridge CB1 7EA, UK Web: http://www.arcom.com/ - 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/