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SubjectRe: Need info on the use of certain datastructures and the first C++ keyword patch for 2.2.17
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> js_dev::new.  My questions are basically this.  If I update these data
> structure members' names along with the references to them in various C
> files in the kernel will all be happy in Linuxland. Can any external

That may well be a problem. Also the use of private.

> utilities be broken or anything like that. Or more precisely are there any
> known external utilities that would be broken by this change? Thanks to all
> those whom can give me a hand in this.

You may find that creating your own wrappers for these files that do

extern "C" {
#define new new_
#define private private_
#include <linux/foo.h>
#undef new
#undef private
}

safer, since you won't break anything

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