22/10/2018 17:06, Wiles, Keith:
>
> > On Oct 21, 2018, at 8:39 AM, Lewis Donzis <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Please consider changing “struct ether_addr” in rte_ether.h to “struct
> > rte_ether_addr”, in order to avoid conflicts with the same structure name
> > /usr/include/net/ethernet.h.
> >
> > This is kind of a pain for us since we would like to include ethernet.h in
> > order to get some other definitions, but we can’t because it conflicts with
> > the same structure name in rte_ether.h.
>
> I agree, but it will require a deprecation notice as a lot of code uses it.
Yes, it is a very long standing issue.
During the last technical board meeting, we discussed a plan to fix it:
http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-October/116695.html
