netdev - Re: [PATCH] uapi: avoid namespace conflict in linux/posix

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Date:   Fri, 7 Jun 2019 11:56:16 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>
Cc:     Joseph Myers <joseph@...esourcery.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
        Paul Burton <pburton@...ecomp.com>,
        Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uapi: avoid namespace conflict in linux/posix_types.h

On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 11:43 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> On the glibc side, we nowadays deal with this by splitting headers
> further.  (We used to suppress definitions with macros, but that tended
> to become convoluted.)  In this case, moving the definition of
> __kernel_long_t to its own header, so that
> include/uapi/asm-generic/socket.h can include that should fix it.

I think we should strive to do that on the kernel side too, since
clearly we shouldn't expose that "val[]" thing in the core posix types
due to namespace rules, but at the same time I think the patch to
rename val[] is fundamentally broken too.

Can you describe how you split things (perhaps even with a patch ;)?
Is this literally the only issue you currently have? Because I'd
expect similar issues to show up elsewhere too, but who knows.. You
presumably do.

                Linus