Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Come on now, either put the whole C namespace stuff around the file, You mean wrap it with 'extern "C" { ... }'? That doesn't fix it. That only affects the symbols generated by the compiler. > "class" is a fine variable name for C code, there's no reason this has > to change here at all. I'm trying to prevent future accidents like the one in linux/keyctl.h. The easiest way to do this[**] is to pass the entire set of UAPI headers[*] through the compiler together. Besides I still have my dark plan to C++-ise the kernel[***] :-D David [*] with some obvious exceptions [**] and it catches other errors too [***] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/1/116