Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Evans writes:
> >Ideally, header files wouldn't have any "variable sized structs" or
> >anything else that depends on options.  Core headers have to be much
> >more careful about this because including an options header nested
> >would break most modules and everything outside of the kernel (apart
> >from the bug that modules and things outside of the kernel have no
> >way to determine the correct value for the option).
> 
> I agree.
> 
> Suggestions for the best way of fixing "struct ipq" in ip_var.h
> hereby solicited.

Please use a union; things like diversion information result in
other information not being used.  It makes no sense to uniformly
bloat all memory allocations for minority features, merely for
the sake of uniformity.

-- Terry

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