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From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
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On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 08:41:53AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2014-10-09 07:29, Neil Horman:
> > On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 05:20:31AM +0000, Wu, Jingjing wrote:
> > > Hi, Neil
> > > 
> > > To have rte_ip.h include netinet/in.h directly is also a choice.
> > > 
> > > But netinet/in.h contains a lot of extra stuff, and these may be useless some DPDK applications, such as classification.
> > > rte_ip.h provides a more simplify way for the IP protocol layer.
> > > 
> > Not sure what the relevance there is.  The definitions you want are
> > standardized, theres no need for the dpdk to re-invent that wheel.  Get them
> > from the system include file.  The fact that extra macros are available in
> > netinet.h is neither relevant or true (as you can't really say for certain what
> > an application will need).
> 
> Neil, Matthew,
> 
> I totally agree with your point of view.
> Please, could you propose a patch to fix this issue?
> 
Matthew, can you handle this please, I've got too much going on right now.
Neil

> Thanks
> -- 
> Thomas
>