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Felix Janda c0bace7984 uapi libc compat: add fallback for unsupported libcs
libc-compat.h aims to prevent symbol collisions between uapi and libc
headers for each supported libc. This requires continuous coordination
between them.

The goal of this commit is to improve the situation for libcs (such as
musl) which are not yet supported and/or do not wish to be explicitly
supported, while not affecting supported libcs. More precisely, with
this commit, unsupported libcs can request the suppression of any
specific uapi definition by defining the correspondings _UAPI_DEF_*
macro as 0. This can fix symbol collisions for them, as long as the
libc headers are included before the uapi headers. Inclusion in the
other order is outside the scope of this commit.

All infrastructure in order to enable this fallback for unsupported
libcs is already in place, except that libc-compat.h unconditionally
defines all _UAPI_DEF_* macros to 1 for all unsupported libcs so that
any previous definitions are ignored. In order to fix this, this commit
merely makes these definitions conditional.

This commit together with the musl libc commit

http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/commit/?id=04983f2272382af92eb8f8838964ff944fbb8258

fixes for example the following compiler errors when <linux/in6.h> is
included after musl's <netinet/in.h>:

./linux/in6.h:32:8: error: redefinition of 'struct in6_addr'
./linux/in6.h:49:8: error: redefinition of 'struct sockaddr_in6'
./linux/in6.h:59:8: error: redefinition of 'struct ipv6_mreq'

The comments referencing glibc are still correct, but this file is not
only used for glibc any more.

Signed-off-by: Felix Janda <felix.janda@posteo.de>
Reviewed-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-01-03 10:52:47 -05:00
arch Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-12-23 11:53:04 -08:00
block block-throttle: avoid double charge 2017-12-20 11:10:17 -07:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-12-22 12:22:48 -08:00
Documentation sound fixes for 4.15-rc6 2017-12-27 12:59:27 -08:00
drivers NET: usb: qmi_wwan: add support for YUGA CLM920-NC5 PID 0x9625 2018-01-02 14:49:34 -05:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs Changes since last update: 2017-12-22 12:27:27 -08:00
include uapi libc compat: add fallback for unsupported libcs 2018-01-03 10:52:47 -05:00
init Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-12-23 11:53:04 -08:00
ipc Rename superblock flags (MS_xyz -> SB_xyz) 2017-11-27 13:05:09 -08:00
kernel While doing tests on tracing over the network, I found that the packets 2017-12-27 13:06:57 -08:00
lib Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 2017-12-18 10:49:22 -05:00
mm Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-12-21 11:13:37 -08:00
net tipc: fix problems with multipoint-to-point flow control 2018-01-02 21:52:07 -05:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 2017-12-03 13:08:30 -05:00
scripts Merge branch 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-12-15 11:44:59 -08:00
security KEYS: reject NULL restriction string when type is specified 2017-12-08 15:13:29 +00:00
sound ALSA: hda - Fix missing COEF init for ALC225/295/299 2017-12-27 08:53:59 +01:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-12-28 23:20:21 -08:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM/ARM Fixes for v4.15, Round 2 2017-12-18 12:57:43 +01:00
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.gitignore Kbuild misc updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:51:33 -08:00
.mailmap Add Jason Gunthorpe as co-maintainer of the RDMA stack 2017-11-17 09:36:18 -08:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-12-15 13:08:37 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.15-rc5 2017-12-23 20:47:16 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

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