Greg KH [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
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?
There's at least one outstanding bug due to a C++ identifier in the kernel
UAPI headers.
Are you saying you explicitly don't want people to be able to use the kernel
UAPI headers in C++?
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?
No, because there's no such trick (except with the preprocessor).
David