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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.


  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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