[3276] in linux-net channel archive
struct ifnet in struct rtentry in
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tony@trishul.sci.gu.edu.au)
Tue Jun 18 00:27:30 1996
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:38:09 +1000
To: Linus.Torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi, linux-gcc@vger.rutgers.edu,
linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
From: tony@trishul.sci.gu.edu.au
I was attempting to compile rpc-1.00 and had *heaps* of problems, most
of which are directly related to the recent changes in linux-2.0 and
libc... so much of the networking related stuff in the new kernel has
changed that it's made a lot of the older net software a nightmare to
compile.
With rpc-1.00 though, I found one problem that I couldn't resolve...
rstat_proc.c: In function `updatestat':
rstat_proc.c:180: storage size of `ifnet' isn't known
Hmm...
% find /usr/include -follow -type f | xargs grep -n ifnet /dev/null
/usr/include/linux/route.h:36: struct ifnet *rt_ifp;
That's all that showed up! Nowhere could I find the actual
declaration of `struct ifnet'.
It's one of the elements of `struct rtentry'. Does this mean that
anything that uses this struct will also bomb out?
Hey, waddaya know... I just did the same grep over my 1.2.13 sources
and it also turned up exactly the same line in the same place. Am I
missing something here?
I'm certainly no expert on this, but it looks as if these structs
haven't existed in linux for a long time (if they ever really did),
yet they are still referred to. I assume that it is either an
oversight for the ommision, or that the declaration for rt_ifp in
`struct rtentry', or even rtentry itself, need to be removed from
<linux/route.h>.
Cheers
Tony
