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=-0.9 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham 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 C608BC5CFFE for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2018 13:49:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94AB92081B for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2018 13:49:56 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 94AB92081B Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=suse.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726701AbeLKNtz (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Dec 2018 08:49:55 -0500 Received: from smtp.nue.novell.com ([195.135.221.5]:54621 "EHLO smtp.nue.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726135AbeLKNtz (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Dec 2018 08:49:55 -0500 Received: from emea4-mta.ukb.novell.com ([10.120.13.87]) by smtp.nue.novell.com with ESMTP (TLS encrypted); Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:49:52 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.132] (nwb-a10-snat.microfocus.com [10.120.13.202]) by emea4-mta.ukb.novell.com with ESMTP (TLS encrypted); Tue, 11 Dec 2018 13:49:29 +0000 Message-ID: <1544536167.5269.7.camel@suse.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "firmware: dmi_scan: Use lowercase letters for UUID" From: Jean Delvare To: Peter Korsgaard Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:49:27 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87efaotgi1.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> References: <20181205211351.5309-1-peter@korsgaard.com> <1544086444.5492.1.camel@suse.com> <87a7ljyppx.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> <1544092087.5492.3.camel@suse.com> <878t1264lf.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> <87efaotgi1.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Organization: Suse Linux Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.22.6 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2018-12-11 at 13:06 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > > > > > > "Peter" == Peter Korsgaard writes: > > Hi Jean, > > >> Look, you can imagine that I was perfectly aware of what I was doing > >> when I made that change, and that I pondered the decision carefully at > >> that time. And my decision was that the change should be made. As far > >> as I'm concerned, this ship has sailed already, sorry. > > > Sorry, what is the perceived risk of reverting this change? Just the > > minor inconsistency between the dmidecode and sysfs output? As stated > > above, the RFC requires conforming parsers to handle upper case as well. > > I would appreciate if you could explain what risk you see from reverting > this change? The exact same risk that you are complaining about, for a different pair of kernel versions. You cannot at the same time argue that the change should not have been done back then, and ask for same change to be done again now. -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support