[PATCH 1/2] net: Remove net/ipx.h and uapi/linux/ipx.h header files

[Uddeshya Tyagi]

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On Wed, Sep 22, 2021, 10:56 PM Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, September 22, 2021 1:01:58 PM EDT Paul Cercueil wrote:
> > >> IPX is marked obsolete for serveral years. so remove it and the
> > >> dependency in linux tree.
> > >> I'm sorry to not thinking about linux-audit and strace.
> > >> Might you remove the dependency or make the part of the code.
> > >> Many thanks.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, that is not how UAPI works.  That change breaks
> > > building
> > > of the existing code;  one cannot change already released versions
> > > of either audit, strace, or any other userspace program that happens
> > > to unconditionally include <linux/ipx.h> without any fallback (like
> > > <netipx/ipx.h> provided by glibc).
> >
> > Also, the <netipx/ipx.h> fallback is only provided by glibc (and maybe
> > uclibc?). With this patch, it is now impossible to compile even the
> > very latest version of "strace" with a musl toolchain.
>
> I've made support for ipx optional in audit user space a couple weeks
> back.
> It's no longer a problem for us.
>
> -Steve
>
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