net: sctp: introduce uapi header for sctp

This patch introduces an UAPI header for the SCTP protocol,
so that we can facilitate the maintenance and development of
user land applications or libraries, in particular in terms
of header synchronization.

To not break compatibility, some fragments from lksctp-tools'
netinet/sctp.h have been carefully included, while taking care
that neither kernel nor user land breaks, so both compile fine
with this change (for lksctp-tools I tested with the old
netinet/sctp.h header and with a newly adapted one that includes
the uapi sctp header). lksctp-tools smoke test run through
successfully as well in both cases.

Suggested-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Daniel Borkmann
2013-04-09 05:54:01 +00:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 3d4a131628
commit 1b86643411
5 changed files with 78 additions and 16 deletions

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@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@
#include <linux/sctp.h>
#include <linux/ipv6.h> /* For ipv6hdr. */
#include <net/sctp/user.h>
#include <net/tcp_states.h> /* For TCP states used in sctp_sock_state_t */
/* Value used for stream negotiation. */