From: Frans Klaver <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 09:03:20 +0200

> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 1:30 AM, David Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>> From: Mikko Rapeli <[email protected]>
>> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 20:32:44 +0200
>>
>>> Fixes userspace compiler error:
>>>
>>> error: ‘IFNAMSIZ’ undeclared here (not in a function)
>>>
>>> Suggested by Frans Klaver <[email protected]> on lkml message
>>> <[email protected]>.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli <[email protected]>
>>
>> IFNAMSIZ has to be in linux/if.h, you aren't explaining why you have
>> to move it to the hdlc header instead of having the hdlc header
>> include linux/if.h
> 
> Circular references. linux/if.h includes hdlc/ioctl.h, and has to
> define IFNAMSIZ before doing so.

That's not acceptable.  Use forward declarations or similar to avoid
the circular dependency.

IFNAMSIZ belongs in linux/if.h, please keep it there.

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