linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] check headers fix.

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Message-ID: <87bn3vdbqy.fsf@intel.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 May 2016 12:52:05 +0300
From:	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	DRI mailing list <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] check headers fix.

On Tue, 24 May 2016, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.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.

BR,
Jani.


[1] http://mid.gmane.org/1461269857-12813-1-git-send-email-emil.l.velikov@gmail.com


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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center