From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC5C2C4360C for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2019 06:31:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ECCF20872 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2019 06:31:44 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="QIgRUipK" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728409AbfJPGbo (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Oct 2019 02:31:44 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.133]:43426 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728228AbfJPGbn (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Oct 2019 02:31:43 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20170209; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version :References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=O611cieVSVNt8LUHCPk3HooYF5ljCfjEE1ZZe7y3RI4=; b=QIgRUipKt/34cq141WPjeqe5f DCPAFTdNvuB/tF6Tky+qkoLqmz9rwVcjqxYKCQ5BVqtkHgEsiYea8OqYp54NwPTuYu9q63stbZyu9 hiENMAooSorDR99/xUjLK3f+3fi1aJMQ8EyZ1R14JRHKYDYhaWHJenz6zcpKBzlphHziMHf3jBtR6 rSMAxmaZWuhj2aA+JZRZIS3l9581zLkFMmyrqLZeHvqC1f9D1C2oBuZTafh+w2D7rAtxl0Y7xnquD KvbuSr8xFVElIkyCdNZxTq4/PwTOTTEDUNE6oZf7wqminFbKNpVmUfN4TkBAy71E0u3UJhB7Nz/Bf 0GLcKDblg==; Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1iKcqS-00034D-KX; Wed, 16 Oct 2019 06:31:40 +0000 Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 23:31:40 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Revanth Rajashekar Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Derrick , Scott Bauer , Jonas Rabenstine , David Kozub , Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] block: sed-opal: Expose enum opal_uid and opaluid Message-ID: <20191016063140.GA6852@infradead.org> References: <20191015230246.10171-1-revanth.rajashekar@intel.com> <20191015230246.10171-2-revanth.rajashekar@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20191015230246.10171-2-revanth.rajashekar@intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.12.1 (2019-06-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-block-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-block@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 05:02:44PM -0600, Revanth Rajashekar wrote: > This patch exposes UIDs to UAPI to allow userspace to use the > UIDs as IOCTL arguments. No way we'd expose an actual array containing data in the uapi, that doesn't make any sense.