Re: [PATCH] uapi: avoid namespace conflict in linux/posix_types.h

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 11:43 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On the glibc side, we nowadays deal with this by splitting headers
> further.  (We used to suppress definitions with macros, but that tended
> to become convoluted.)  In this case, moving the definition of
> __kernel_long_t to its own header, so that
> include/uapi/asm-generic/socket.h can include that should fix it.

I think we should strive to do that on the kernel side too, since
clearly we shouldn't expose that "val[]" thing in the core posix types
due to namespace rules, but at the same time I think the patch to
rename val[] is fundamentally broken too.

Can you describe how you split things (perhaps even with a patch ;)?
Is this literally the only issue you currently have? Because I'd
expect similar issues to show up elsewhere too, but who knows.. You
presumably do.

                Linus