Re: [PATCH 2.6.10-rc1] Fix building of samba userland

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 12:55:48PM -0800, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 12:03:45PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> 
> > Hello.  After 2.6.8.1, samba userland would no longer build with
> > current kernel headers, as it needs some of the samba kernel headers
> > to work,
> 
> what? the samba userland which i assume is portable and not at all
> linux specific needs linux kernel headers?

Portability questions aside (I'm not a Samba person, nor do I play one
on TV), the code in question isn't, as it needs <asm/types.h> and
<linux/smb_fs.h> (if not needs, at least uses as of 3.0.7).

> > +++ edited/include/linux/smb_fs.h	2004-11-03 12:00:07 -07:00
> > @@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
> >  #include <linux/smb.h>
> >  #include <linux/smb_fs_i.h>
> >  #include <linux/smb_fs_sb.h>
> > -#include <linux/fs.h>
> >  
> >  /*
> >   * ioctl commands
> > @@ -26,6 +25,7 @@
> >  
> >  #ifdef __KERNEL__
> >  
> > +#include <linux/fs.h>
> >  #include <linux/pagemap.h>
> >  #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
> >  #include <linux/smb_mount.h>
> 
> that patch seems harmless enough, but im not sure why it should be
> necessary really, i dont see why samba should be including such
> headers at all --- it's a bad idea in almost all cases

Digging around a bit, it needs SMB_CASE_DEFAULT (enum) and
SMB_IOC_NEWCONN.

-- 
Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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