[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 05/13] vhost: fix errors with strict compilation flags

[Yuanhan Liu]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 05:52:59PM +0200, Adrien Mazarguil wrote:
> Exported headers must allow compilation with the strictest flags. This
> commit addresses the following errors:
> 
>  In file included from /tmp/check-includes.sh.20132.c:1:0:
>  build/include/rte_vhost.h:73:30: error: ISO C forbids zero-size array
>     'regions' [-Werror=pedantic]
>  [...]
> 
> Also:
> 
> - Add C++ awareness to rte_vhost.h for consistency with rte_eth_vhost.h.
> - Move Linux includes into C++ block to prevent linking issues with
>   exported symbols.
> - Update check-includes.sh following the removal of rte_virtio_net.h.
> 
> Finally, update check-includes.sh to ignore rte_vhost.h and rte_eth_vhost.h
> from now on since the Linux headers they depend on are not clean enough:
> 
>  In file included from /usr/include/linux/vhost.h:17:0,
>                   from build/include/rte_vhost.h:43,
>                   from build/include/rte_eth_vhost.h:44,
>                   from /tmp/check-includes.sh.20132.c:1:
>  /usr/include/linux/virtio_ring.h: In function 'vring_init':
>  /usr/include/linux/virtio_ring.h:146:16: error: pointer of type 'void *'
>     used in arithmetic [-Werror=pointer-arith]
>  [...]
>  In file included from build/include/rte_vhost.h:43:0,
>                   from build/include/rte_eth_vhost.h:44,
>                   from /tmp/check-includes.sh.20132.c:1:
>  /usr/include/linux/vhost.h: At top level:
>  /usr/include/linux/vhost.h:73:3: error: ISO C99 doesn't support unnamed
>     structs/unions [-Werror=pedantic]
>  [...]
> 
> Fixes: eb32247457fe ("vhost: export guest memory regions")
> Fixes: a798beb47c8e ("vhost: rename header file")
> 
> Cc: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil at 6wind.com>

Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com>

	--yliu