On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 05:36:39PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Olaf Hering wrote:
>
> > include/linux/if_fddi.h is an exported header.
> > It uses __be16. Include linux/types.h to get this prototype.
>
> Please note that for userland it does not matter. With glibc you should
> include <netinet/if_fddi.h> which does the necessary bits before including
> <linux/if_fddi.h>. Any other C library should likely take a similar
> approach.
It doesn't make any sense to habe all libc's figure out inter-header
dependencies.
For each userspace exported header file an #include <linux/foo.h> should
always compile, and if it fails due to missing #include's in the header
that's a bug that should be fixed.
> It still seems right for Linux itself though.
>
> Maciej
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