Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow ip_tables.h to be used from userspace

From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:38:21 +0100

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The xtables version of ip_tables.h was no longer usable (in sanitized form)
> by iproute2 and other applications because sparse annotations had crept
> in.
> 
> @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ struct ipt_replace
>  	/* Number of counters (must be equal to current number of entries). */
>  	unsigned int num_counters;
>  	/* The old entries' counters. */
> -	struct xt_counters __user *counters;
> +	struct xt_counters *counters;

# Eliminate the contents of (and inclusions of) compiler.h

HDRSED  := sed  -e "s/ inline / __inline__ /g" \
                -e "s/[[:space:]]__user[[:space:]]\+/ /g" \
                -e "s/(__user[[:space:]]\+/ (/g" \

I think this regex should be fixed instead to get rid of it
while sanitizing (Makefile.headersinst).