From: David Howells <dhowells-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/23] uuid: remove uuid_be defintions from the uapi header
Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 11:58:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13041.1495191521@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170518071352.GA515-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
Christoph Hellwig <hch-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org> 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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2017-05-21 6:55 ` [PATCH 03/23] uuid: remove uuid_be defintions from the uapi header Christoph Hellwig
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