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From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "firmware: dmi_scan: Use lowercase letters for UUID"
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 13:06:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87efaotgi1.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878t1264lf.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> (Peter Korsgaard's message of "Thu, 06 Dec 2018 16:46:04 +0100")

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> 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?

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-11 12:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-05 21:13 [PATCH] Revert "firmware: dmi_scan: Use lowercase letters for UUID" Peter Korsgaard
2018-12-05 21:36 ` Peter Korsgaard
2018-12-06  8:54 ` Jean Delvare
2018-12-06  9:22   ` Peter Korsgaard
2018-12-06 10:28     ` Jean Delvare
2018-12-06 15:46       ` Peter Korsgaard
2018-12-11 12:06         ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2018-12-11 13:49           ` Jean Delvare
2018-12-11 14:36             ` Peter Korsgaard

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