From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>,
Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/23] uuid: remove uuid_be defintions from the uapi header
Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 08:55:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170521065557.GC13004@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13041.1495191521@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 11:58:41AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> 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.
It is never passed through any kernel interface, which by defintion does
not make it an ABI. And even if it was we are not going to change the
ABI for a uuid_t ever. We're just changing the internal name, and stop
exposing the old name which was never used in an ABI to userspace.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-21 6:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-18 6:26 cleanup UUID types V3 Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 6:26 ` [PATCH 01/23] xfs: use uuid_copy() helper to abstract uuid_t Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 13:27 ` Brian Foster
2017-05-18 23:32 ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-05-18 6:26 ` [PATCH 02/23] xfs: use uuid_be to implement the uuid_t type Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 13:27 ` Brian Foster
2017-05-18 23:34 ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-05-18 6:26 ` [PATCH 03/23] uuid: remove uuid_be defintions from the uapi header Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 7:12 ` Joe Perches
2017-05-18 7:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-19 10:58 ` David Howells
2017-05-21 6:55 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-05-18 6:26 ` [PATCH 04/23] uuid: rename uuid types Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 17:42 ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-05-18 6:26 ` [PATCH 05/23] uuid: don't export guid_index and uuid_index Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 6:26 ` [PATCH 06/23] uuid: add the v1 layout to uuid_t Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 6:26 ` [PATCH 07/23] uuid: hoist helpers uuid_equal() and uuid_copy() from xfs Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 6:26 ` [PATCH 08/23] uuid: hoist uuid_is_null() helper from libnvdimm Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 6:26 ` [PATCH 09/23] S390/sysinfo: use uuid_is_null instead of opencoding it Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 6:26 ` [PATCH 10/23] afs: switch to use uuid_t and uuid_gen Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-22 18:49 ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-05-23 8:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-23 13:11 ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-05-25 13:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-25 13:29 ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-05-18 6:26 ` [PATCH 11/23] uuid: remove struct uuid_v1 Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 6:26 ` [PATCH 12/23] xfs: remove uuid_getnodeuniq and xfs_uu_t Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 13:27 ` Brian Foster
2017-05-18 23:35 ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-05-18 6:26 ` [PATCH 13/23] md: namespace private helper names Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 18:32 ` Shaohua Li
2017-05-22 18:52 ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-05-23 8:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 6:26 ` [PATCH 14/23] xfs: use the common helper uuid_is_null() Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 13:27 ` Brian Foster
2017-05-18 6:26 ` [PATCH 15/23] block: remove blk_part_pack_uuid Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 23:15 ` Mimi Zohar
2017-05-18 6:26 ` [PATCH 16/23] ima/policy: switch to use uuid_t Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 23:16 ` Mimi Zohar
2017-05-18 6:26 ` [PATCH 17/23] fs: switch ->s_uuid to uuid_t Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 23:17 ` Mimi Zohar
2017-05-18 6:27 ` [PATCH 18/23] overlayfs: use uuid_t instead of uuid_be Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 6:27 ` [PATCH 19/23] partitions/ldm: switch to use uuid_t Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 6:27 ` [PATCH 20/23] sysctl: " Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 6:27 ` [PATCH 21/23] nvme: switch to uuid_t Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 6:27 ` [PATCH 22/23] scsi_debug: " Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 6:27 ` [PATCH 23/23] uuid: remove uuid_be Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 7:57 ` Amir Goldstein
2017-05-18 8:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-22 18:59 ` Andy Shevchenko
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