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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
	Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] UAPI: Check headers by compiling all together as C++
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 18:55:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180905165552.GB25206@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <153616286704.23468.584491117180383924.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>

On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 04:54:27PM +0100, David Howells 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?

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?

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-05 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ 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 15:54 ` [PATCH 01/11] UAPI: drm: Fix use of C++ keywords as structural members David Howells
2018-09-05 15:54 ` [PATCH 02/11] UAPI: keys: " David Howells
2018-09-05 15:54 ` [PATCH 03/11] UAPI: virtio_net: " David Howells
2018-09-05 16:54   ` Greg KH
2018-09-05 17:15     ` David Howells
2018-09-05 17:35   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-09-06  7:09     ` David Howells
2018-09-06 14:36       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-09-05 15:55 ` [PATCH 04/11] UAPI: bcache: Fix use of embedded flexible array David Howells
2018-10-02 14:52   ` Jan Engelhardt
2018-10-09 15:41     ` David Howells
2018-10-09 16:54       ` Jan Engelhardt
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 17:24     ` David Howells
2018-09-05 17:28     ` Jan Harkes
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 06/11] UAPI: netfilter: Fix symbol collision issues 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 15:55 ` [PATCH 08/11] UAPI: sound: Fix use of u32 and co. in UAPI headers David Howells
2018-09-06  5:59   ` Takashi Sakamoto
2018-09-06  8:17     ` David Howells
2018-09-05 15:55 ` [PATCH 09/11] UAPI: ndctl: Fix g++-unsupported initialisation in headers David Howells
2018-09-05 15:55 ` [PATCH 10/11] UAPI: ndctl: Remove use of PAGE_SIZE David Howells
2018-09-05 15:55 ` [PATCH 11/11] UAPI: Check headers build for C++ David Howells
2018-09-05 16:55 ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-09-05 17:33   ` [RFC] UAPI: Check headers by compiling all together as C++ Yann Droneaud
2018-09-05 17:42     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-09-06  7:12     ` Yann Droneaud
2018-09-05 17:50   ` David Howells
2018-09-05 19:22   ` Jan Engelhardt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-09-05 18:59 Alexey Dobriyan
2018-09-05 19:26 ` Greg KH
2018-09-05 19:31   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2018-09-05 22:22     ` Al Viro
2018-09-13 22:01       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2018-09-13 22:15         ` Al Viro
2018-09-13 23:27           ` David Howells
2018-09-13 23:42             ` Al Viro
2018-09-05 19:53   ` David Howells
2018-09-06  9:18 David Howells

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