[libvirt] [PATCH v3 2/4] Make virNetDevSetupControl() public.

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Mon Feb 4 22:56:05 UTC 2013


On 02/04/2013 03:46 PM, Eric Blake wrote:

>>
>> <net/if.h> is a standard header (and therefore guaranteed by gnulib), but...
>>
>>> +
>>> +int virNetDevSetupControl(const char *ifname,
>>> +                          struct ifreq *ifr)
>>
>> struct ifreq is a non-standard type, and therefore this will cause
>> compilation errors on platforms that lack this struct (hello mingw).
> 
> Oddly enough, it also causes compilation errors on Linux; at least with
> the kernel headers present in current Fedora 18:
> 
>   CC       libvirt_util_la-virnetdevmacvlan.lo
> In file included from util/virnetdev.h:31:0,
>                  from util/virnetdevmacvlan.c:64:
> /usr/include/net/if.h:44:5: error: expected identifier before numeric
> constant
> In file included from util/virnetdev.h:31:0,
>                  from util/virnetdevmacvlan.c:64:
> /usr/include/net/if.h:111:8: error: redefinition of 'struct ifmap'
> ...
> 
> I'm not sure if this is related to the known kernel header bug (see the
> big thread at
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-January/thread.html#00891),
> but it definitely must be resolved before we can hoist 'struct ifreq *'
> into a header that is included in multiple files.

Thankfully, I was able to find a workaround for the Linux compilation
(mingw compilation still needs help, though):

diff --git i/src/util/virnetdevmacvlan.c w/src/util/virnetdevmacvlan.c
index a74db1e..78a37ec 100644
--- i/src/util/virnetdevmacvlan.c
+++ w/src/util/virnetdevmacvlan.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (C) 2010-2012 Red Hat, Inc.
+ * Copyright (C) 2010-2013 Red Hat, Inc.
  * Copyright (C) 2010-2012 IBM Corporation
  *
  * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ VIR_ENUM_IMPL(virNetDevMacVLanMode,
VIR_NETDEV_MACVLAN_MODE_LAST,
 # include <sys/socket.h>
 # include <sys/ioctl.h>

-# include <linux/if.h>
+# include <net/if.h>
 # include <linux/if_tun.h>

 /* Older kernels lacked this enum value.  */
diff --git i/src/util/virnetdevvportprofile.c
w/src/util/virnetdevvportprofile.c
index bb97e3a..e775ca5 100644
--- i/src/util/virnetdevvportprofile.c
+++ w/src/util/virnetdevvportprofile.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Red Hat, Inc.
+ * Copyright (C) 2009-2013 Red Hat, Inc.
  *
  * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ VIR_ENUM_IMPL(virNetDevVPortProfileOp,
VIR_NETDEV_VPORT_PROFILE_OP_LAST,
 # include <sys/socket.h>
 # include <sys/ioctl.h>

-# include <linux/if.h>
+# include <net/if.h>
 # include <linux/if_tun.h>

 # include "virnetlink.h"


-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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