On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 07:35:28 -0500 Lewis Donzis <l...@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. > > Sometimes, there is need to include /usr/include/net/ethernet.h, but it > conflicts with the same structure name in rte_ether.h. Was there a reason > this structure wasn't given the standard rte_ prefix? > > Thanks, > lew Only history, remember EAL was first running on bare metal. Changing to 'struct rte_ether_addr' breaks source of lots of applications.
