On Wednesday 2018-09-05 18:55, Greg KH wrote: >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? With C++11, C++ has become a much nicer language to use (for userspace, anyway). >And if userspace wants to do this, can't they do the C namespace trick >themselves when they do the import? The only trick is to use an extra C source file and extensively wrap things.
