Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> 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
