On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 12:16:49PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <l...@altlinux.org>
> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 04:39:30 +0300
> 
> > Replace MAX_ADDR_LEN with its numeric value to fix the following
> > linux/packet_diag.h userspace compilation error:
> > 
> > /usr/include/linux/packet_diag.h:67:17: error: 'MAX_ADDR_LEN' undeclared 
> > here (not in a function)
> >   __u8 pdmc_addr[MAX_ADDR_LEN];
> > 
> > This is not the first case in the UAPI where the numeric value
> > of MAX_ADDR_LEN is used, uapi/linux/if_link.h already does the same,
> > and there are no UAPI headers besides these two that use MAX_ADDR_LEN.
> > 
> > The alternative fix would be to include <linux/netdevice.h> which
> > pulls in other headers and a lot of definitions with them.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <l...@altlinux.org>
> 
> If if_link.h includes netdevice.h properly, let's try to do the same here as 
> well.

Sorry if my words weren't clear enough: no, if_link.h doesn't include
netdevice.h, it uses the _numeric_ value instead:

$ grep MAX_ADDR_LEN include/uapi/linux/if_link.h 
        __u8 mac[32]; /* MAX_ADDR_LEN */


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