From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Tomáš Mudruňka" <tomas.mudrunka@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Song Liu <song@kernel.org>,
Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export MDRAID bitmap on disk structure in UAPI header file
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 07:45:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z3v6khutPZEXkK-j@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH2-hcK-yF2SbxpXzB2c1Y73gjJxRfbPkmAOvmfM1Uh6QyT06g@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jan 06, 2025 at 04:40:52PM +0100, Tomáš Mudruňka wrote:
> > the bitmap format is not a userspace ABI, it is an on-disk format.
> > As such it does not belong into the uapi. It might make sense to
> > create a clean standalone header just for the on-disk format that
> > you could copy, though.
>
> If you inspect the header in question, you'll find that this is the exact
> reason why this header exists. To describe "physical layout" of
> MD RAID devices. Which is just fancy way to say "on disk format".
Well, then MD already gets it wrong. No reason to do more of the same.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-06 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-12-31 3:09 [PATCH] Export MDRAID bitmap on disk structure in UAPI header file Tomas Mudrunka
2024-12-31 3:47 ` Yu Kuai
2024-12-31 8:59 ` Mariusz Tkaczyk
2024-12-31 11:02 ` Tomáš Mudruňka
[not found] ` <CAH2-hc+QK0SZgDjOScegsDk8R8gQEZgJ5Vg1M1J_v-yDEym=Dw@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <20241231123108.215cc05e@mtkaczyk-private-dev>
2024-12-31 14:23 ` Mariusz Tkaczyk
2025-01-02 1:43 ` Yu Kuai
2025-01-02 11:48 ` Tomas Mudrunka
2025-01-03 1:14 ` Yu Kuai
2025-01-03 9:38 ` Mariusz Tkaczyk
2025-01-03 11:54 ` Tomas Mudrunka
2025-01-07 8:36 ` Mariusz Tkaczyk
2025-01-07 22:58 ` Song Liu
2025-01-15 15:23 ` Tomáš Mudruňka
2025-01-06 15:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-01-06 15:40 ` Tomáš Mudruňka
2025-01-06 15:45 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2025-02-03 11:43 ` Mariusz Tkaczyk
2025-02-03 17:18 ` [PATCH v2] " Tomas Mudrunka
2025-02-06 22:30 ` [PATCH v3] " Tomas Mudrunka
2025-02-18 2:32 ` Yu Kuai
2025-02-18 11:38 ` [PATCH v4] " Tomas Mudrunka
2025-02-19 6:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
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