-/**
- * Forward declarations so we need not #include the API definitions here
- */
-struct _vl_api_mac_address;
-
-extern void mac_address_decode (const struct _vl_api_mac_address *in,
- mac_address_t * out);
-extern void mac_address_encode (const mac_address_t * in,
- struct _vl_api_mac_address *out);
+extern void mac_address_decode (const u8 * in, mac_address_t * out);
+extern void mac_address_encode (const mac_address_t * in, u8 * out);