linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi_status_is_good() uses __KERNEL_

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Date:   Mon, 16 Oct 2023 15:06:30 -0700
From:   enh <enh@...gle.com>
To:     Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi_status_is_good() uses __KERNEL__ constants.

On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 1:48 PM Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org> wrote:
>
> On 10/16/23 13:42, enh wrote:
> > Without this missing #ifdef, userspace code trying to use this header
> > directly won't compile. glibc manually removes it, bionic removes it
> > using a script. If we add this, the preprocessor can remove it instead.
>
> Is that the right solution? Shouldn't these software projects be
> modified such that <scsi/scsi.h> is *not* included?

i'm not sure that's practical? all linux libcs i know of include these
headers. (though bionic only has them because glibc did. i'm assuming
the same is true for musl?)

i think there's obviously a question of "why aren't these uapi
headers, if stuff is using them?". just looking at Android, i see
sg3_utils, mtools, compiler-rt (for ioctls), and toybox (for the eject
command).

or perhaps --- even if most of the scsi headers should be non-uapi, is
there a subset of stuff that should be in uapi?

but "libc can use this header directly like it does uapi headers,
rather than having to need a human manually fix the header" seemed
like a step forward from the status quo where everyone's shipping
their own hacked-up versions of these headers?

> Thanks,
>
> Bart.
>