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

[Al Viro]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 10:31:11PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 09:26:36PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > 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 :)
> 
> "struct class" makes you hostis publicus #1 of the Linux++ empire. :^)

Don't tempt me...