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| 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 |
| Message-ID | <tInT5-6TZ-27@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <tIn6G-68Z-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <tIn6G-68Z-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <tInT3-6TZ-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
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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