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Message-ID: <CAKMK7uGrCis5B9b+Sr4E0hHFFbdWm3wb-_5hMA24cgviOUnH5Q@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 12:12:42 +0200 From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch> To: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, DRI mailing list <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org> Subject: Re: [git pull] check headers fix. On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com> wrote: > 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. 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 -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch
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