[PATCH 0/1] rtnetlink/netdevice include triggers userspace compiler errors

[Andy Whitcroft]

We have seen a number of reports of userspace applications (including
eglibc) which fail to compile when trying to use linux/rtnetlink.h.
It appears that a new helper function has necessitated the inclusion of
linux/netdevice.h which in turn causes a collision with userspace headers
from libc, with net/if.h.

It appears that this header is not required for the userspace exported
components of rtnetlink.h.  Following this email is a patch to pull this
include down in the the kernel specific section of this header.  It seems
to both fix this issue for userspace and still compiles correctly for
kernel use.

Against v2.6.37-rc1.

-apw

Andy Whitcroft (1):
  net: rtnetlink.h -- only include linux/netdevice.h when used by the
    kernel

 include/linux/rtnetlink.h |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

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