[git pull] check headers fix.
Daniel Vetter
daniel at ffwll.ch
Tue May 24 10:12:42 UTC 2016
On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Jani Nikula
<jani.nikula at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 May 2016, Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 07:29:25AM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Linus,
>>>
>>> here is the C++ guards warning fix from Arnd.
>>
>> So why the hell do we have C++ guards in kernel headers?
>
> uapi headers. See [1] for the cover letter to the patches with
> rationale.
Short summary: We want to directly reuse the headers generated by make
headers_install for the userspace side of gpu drivers, and at least
some driver teams use C++ for the compilers in there.
-Daniel
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