Re: [PATCH v2] RFC: Automatically check xen's public headers for C++ pitfalls.

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Thu, 2015-03-12 at 11:03 +0100, Tim Deegan wrote:
> At 13:16 +0100 on 05 Mar (1425557777), Tim Deegan wrote:
> > At 11:55 +0000 on 05 Mar (1425552955), Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2015-03-05 at 11:41 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > >>> On 05.03.15 at 12:35, <ian.campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 2015-03-05 at 12:25 +0100, Tim Deegan wrote:
> > > > >> So I've seen four responses in favour of just renaming the field
> > > > >> (Andrew Cooper, Razvan Cojocaru, Don Slutz and David Vrabel) and one
> > > > >> in favour of #ifdeffing it so it's only renamed in C++ (Jan Beulich).
> > > > >> I really don't like adding more #ifdefs to an already hard-to-read
> > > > >> file; I'd rather just rename the field, or else leaving it alone and
> > > > >> letting C++ users carry the fixup in their own code.
> > > > >> 
> > > > >> CC'ing the other "THE REST" maintainers for their opinions.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Rather than ifdefs for C++, don't we need them based on
> > > > > __XEN_INTERFACE_VERSION__?
> > > > 
> > > > That's not applicable to the stuff under public/io/.
> > > 
> > > In which case I'd certainly prefer just changing the name and getting it
> > > over with.
> > > 
> > > mini-os would need checking, since that's (AFAIK) the only intree user
> > > of these headers.
> > 
> > mini-os doesn't in fact use this field; it's a blktap2-ism.
> > Here's a (non-RFC) patch to rename it and update blktap2:
> 
> Ian, Jan, can I get an Ack or Nack on this so I can clear it off my
> plate? :)

Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>