From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
keyrings@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org,
freedreno@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] UAPI: Check headers by compiling all together as C++
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 18:50:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <22225.1536169842@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180905165552.GB25206@kroah.com>
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > Here's a set of patches that inserts a step into the build process to make
> > sure that the UAPI headers can all be built together with C++ (if the
> > compiler being used supports C++). All but the final patch perform fixups,
> > including:
>
> Wait, why do we care? What has recently changed to start to directly
> import kernel uapi files into C++ code?
There's at least one outstanding bug due to a C++ identifier in the kernel
UAPI headers.
Are you saying you explicitly don't want people to be able to use the kernel
UAPI headers in C++?
> And if userspace wants to do this, can't they do the C namespace trick
> themselves when they do the import? That must be how they are doing it
> today, right?
No, because there's no such trick (except with the preprocessor).
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-05 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-05 15:54 [RFC] UAPI: Check headers by compiling all together as C++ David Howells
2018-09-05 15:55 ` [PATCH 05/11] UAPI: coda: Don't use internal kernel structs in UAPI David Howells
2018-09-05 16:54 ` Jan Harkes
2018-09-05 17:12 ` Yann Droneaud
2018-09-05 17:28 ` Jan Harkes
2018-09-05 17:24 ` David Howells
2018-09-06 7:13 ` David Howells
2018-09-06 11:52 ` Yann Droneaud
2018-09-06 12:16 ` Jan Harkes
2018-09-06 14:53 ` David Howells
2018-09-05 15:55 ` [PATCH 07/11] UAPI: nilfs2: Fix use of undefined byteswapping functions David Howells
2018-09-05 22:20 ` Al Viro
2018-09-05 16:55 ` [RFC] UAPI: Check headers by compiling all together as C++ Greg KH
2018-09-05 17:33 ` Yann Droneaud
2018-09-05 17:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-09-06 7:12 ` Yann Droneaud
2018-09-05 19:22 ` Jan Engelhardt
2018-09-05 17:50 ` David Howells [this message]
2018-09-06 9:18 David Howells
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