[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] netsniff-ng: fix build with kernel headers v4.10+

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

 > Hello,
 > On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 10:30:54 +0200, Baruch Siach wrote:
 >> Add upstream patch removing use of GENL_ID_GENERATE that was dropped in kernel
 >> version 4.10.
 >> 
 >> Fixes:
 >> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/58d/58d7809cae739f728c58291f2111684d6c0578f3/
 >> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/65c/65ce9807116ca70908e0aabae59a36c7774dfa7a/
 >> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/64b/64b3f8af2ebc5a14ecbef72039ef527b5d71f12c/
 >> 
 >> Cc: Joris Lijssens <joris.lijssens at gmail.com>
 >> Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>
 >> ---
 >> ...-nlmsg-Drop-dissection-of-GENL_ID_GENERAT.patch | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 >> 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+)
 >> create mode 100644 package/netsniff-ng/0001-netsniff-ng-nlmsg-Drop-dissection-of-GENL_ID_GENERAT.patch

 > Both applied to master, thanks!

 > Peter: do we want to fix a build issue related to 4.10 kernel headers
 > in the LTS version? The LTS version did not have explicit support for
 > 4.10 kernel headers, so I'm not sure it's really worth the effort.

While the patch is quite small and safe looking, as we don't have
official 4.10 headers support I don't think it makes sense to add it to
2017.02.x.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard