Re: [PATCH] include linux/types.h in if_fddi.h

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

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

cu
Adrian

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