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

From Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 03/23] uuid: remove uuid_be defintions from the uapi header
Date 2017-05-18 09:20 +0200
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On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 12:12:45AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-05-18 at 08:26 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > We don't use uuid_be and the UUID_BE constants in any uapi headers, so make
> > them private to the kernel.
> 
> On the assumption that no user program uses them?
> Is that a safe assumption?

It's not a userspace ABI, so by defintion it does not break an
existing user program.  If someone was using it they should be using
uuid_t from libuuid instead, as that gives them the routines to deal
with it.

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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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