linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] media: do not use C++ style comments in uapi headers

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Date:   Wed, 5 Jun 2019 08:02:05 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: do not use C++ style comments in uapi headers

On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 10:22:05PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-06-05 at 07:10 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 01:10:41PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 3:21 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> []
> > > This means we cannot reliably use uint{8,16,32,64}_t in UAPI headers.
> > 
> > We should not be doing that as they are in the userspace "namespace" of
> > variables, not in the kernel namespace.  We've been over this many times
> > in the past :(
> 
> Just not very successfully...
> 
> $ git grep -w -P 'u?_?int(?:8|16|32|64)_t' include/uapi | wc -l
> 342
> 
> $ git grep -w -P --name-only 'u?_?int(?:8|16|32|64)_t' include/uapi | wc -l
> 13
> 
> Documentation helps a bit, checkpatch helps as well.
> Maintainer knowledge and vigilance probably helps the most.

Yes, it's not been a dedicated effort at all :(

But it needs to be resolved, if we want people to actually use our
kernel headers easily.

thanks,

greg k-h