Re: [RFC] UAPI: Check headers by compiling all together as C++

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Sep 05 2018 - 12:56:05 EST


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