From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Howells Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/23] uuid: remove uuid_be defintions from the uapi header Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 11:58:41 +0100 Message-ID: <13041.1495191521@warthog.procyon.org.uk> References: <20170518071352.GA515@lst.de> <20170518062705.25902-1-hch@lst.de> <20170518062705.25902-4-hch@lst.de> <1495091565.31562.28.camel@perches.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20170518071352.GA515-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org> Content-ID: <13040.1495191521.1-S6HVgzuS8uM4Awkfq6JHfwNdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: linux-nvdimm-bounces-hn68Rpc1hR1g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org Sender: "Linux-nvdimm" To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-xfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-raid-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-nvdimm-hn68Rpc1hR1g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org, Mimi Zohar , Amir Goldstein , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, dhowells-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Joe Perches , Andy Shevchenko , Shaohua Li , Steven Whitehouse List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig 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