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

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Sep 05 2018 - 15:26:41 EST


On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 09:59:22PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan 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?
>
> I think David is seriously trying to compile kernel with C++ compiler
> and this is first step.
>
> He isn't alone. Resistance is futile. :^)

"struct class" is going to be a hard one to overcome :)