Re: Iproute2 build broken by current kernel headers

On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:54:09 -0800
Stephen Hemminger [off-list ref] wrote:

The update to inet diag broke compatibility with exported headers.
Iproute2 uses sanitized kernel headers.

gcc -D_GNU_SOURCE -O2 -Wstrict-prototypes -Wall -I../include -DRESOLVE_HOSTNAMES -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/lib/\"   -c -o ss.o ss.c
ss.c: In function ‘tcp_show_netlink’:
ss.c:1504:7: error: ‘struct inet_diag_req’ has no member named ‘idiag_family’
make[1]: *** [ss.o] Error 1

The structures need to be swapped to maintain source compatibility.
inet_diag_req_compat needs to be renamed back to inet_diag_req
inet_diag_req should be named something like inet_diag_req_generic