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Re: [PATCH 03/23] uuid: remove uuid_be defintions from the uapi header

From David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 03/23] uuid: remove uuid_be defintions from the uapi header
Date 2017-05-19 13:00 +0200
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:

> It's not a userspace ABI, so by defintion it does not break an
> existing user program.

That's an invalid assumption.  It is a de facto userspace ABI as it has been
exposed in /usr/include/linux/uuid.h for some time.

> If someone was using it they should be using uuid_t from libuuid instead, as
> that gives them the routines to deal with it.

Yes, they should - but that doesn't mean they do.

David

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[PATCH 03/23] uuid: remove uuid_be defintions from the uapi header Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-18 08:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 03/23] uuid: remove uuid_be defintions from the uapi  header Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-05-18 09:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 03/23] uuid: remove uuid_be defintions from the uapi         header Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-18 09:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 03/23] uuid: remove uuid_be defintions from the uapi header David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2017-05-19 13:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 03/23] uuid: remove uuid_be defintions from the uapi         header Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-21 09:00 +0200

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