On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 10:26 +0200, Thomas Graf wrote: > On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 16:38 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 11:50 +0200, Thomas Graf wrote: > > > Use of <net/if.h> conflicts with the use of <linux/if.h>. While users > > > of <net/if.h> can switch to <linux/if.h> it is not posible in the > > > other direction. > > > > > > The header <netlink/route/link.h> uses <linux/if.h> because it is part > > > of the API, therefore it conflicts with NM. > > > > > > Does NM rely on using <net/if.h> for some reason or can we switch over > > > to using <linux/if.h>? > > > > It's being used for some ioctls, it appears. This patch fails like so: > > > > libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src > > -I../../src/logging -I../../include -I../../libnm-util -I../../marshallers > > -pthread -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib64/dbus-1.0/include > > -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/wimax > > -Wall -std=gnu89 -g -O2 -Wshadow -Wmissing-declarations > > -Wmissing-prototypes -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wfloat-equal > > -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-sign-compare -fno-strict-aliasing > > -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Wundef -Werror -MT > > libwimax_la-nm-device-wimax.lo -MD -MP -MF > > .deps/libwimax_la-nm-device-wimax.Tpo -c nm-device-wimax.c -fPIC -DPIC -o > > .libs/libwimax_la-nm-device-wimax.o > > In file included from nm-device-wimax.c:26:0: > > /usr/include/linux/if.h:178:19: error: field 'ifru_addr' has incomplete type > > /usr/include/linux/if.h:179:19: error: field 'ifru_dstaddr' has incomplete > > type > > /usr/include/linux/if.h:180:19: error: field 'ifru_broadaddr' has > > incomplete type > > /usr/include/linux/if.h:181:19: error: field 'ifru_netmask' has incomplete > > type > > /usr/include/linux/if.h:182:20: error: field 'ifru_hwaddr' has incomplete > > type > > I don't see this breakage, presumably due to differing kernel-headers.
2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64 Is there some particular reason this keeps breaking every few years? Dan _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
