[dpdk-dev] Change ether_addr to avoid conflict

Wiles, Keith keith.wiles at intel.com
Mon Oct 22 17:06:00 CEST 2018



> On Oct 21, 2018, at 8:39 AM, Lewis Donzis <lew at perftech.com> wrote:
> 
> Please consider changing “struct ether_addr” in rte_ether.h to “struct rte_ether_addr”, in order to avoid conflicts with the same structure name /usr/include/net/ethernet.h.
> 
> This is kind of a pain for us since we would like to include ethernet.h in order to get some other definitions, but we can’t because it conflicts with the same structure name in rte_ether.h.

I agree, but it will require a deprecation notice as a lot of code uses it.

> 
> Thanks,
> lew

Regards,
Keith



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