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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Need info on the use of certain datastructures and the first C++ keyword patch for 2.2.17 
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On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:04:06 +0000 (GMT), 
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>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

It breaks module symbol versions, see earlier mail to l-k.

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