linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][RESEND] do not redefine userspace's NULL #define

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Message-Id: <201204141054.23935.l.lunak@suse.cz>
Date:	Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:54:23 +0200
From:	Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@...e.cz>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Peter Seebach <peter.seebach@...driver.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RESEND] do not redefine userspace's NULL #define

On Saturday 14 of April 2012, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@...e.cz> wrote:
> >  How about the patch? Are there any *actual* problems with it or can it
> > please go in?
>
> If we're going to change that thing, I'd actually prefer to just move
> it inside the #ifdef __KERNEL__ entirely, and get rid of the cplusplus
> case.
>
> IOW, something like this (obviously white-space-mangled) patch:
...
> which protects the kernel NULL definition along with the whole
> offsetof and true/false ones too. And just gets rid of the insane C++
> case entirely.

 That's what the original version of my patch did, but Arnd pointed out that 
other exported headers might use NULL and thus not be self-contained in 
userspace after this change, breaking backwards source compatibility. But I'd 
expect such breakages to be rather unlikely (stddef.h is probably pulled in 
by pretty much everything), so if you're fine with it, I'm ok with this 
solution too.

-- 
 Lubos Lunak
 l.lunak@...e.cz

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