Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 May 2017 09:13:52 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 03/23] uuid: remove uuid_be defintions from the uapi header |
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On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 12:12:45AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2017-05-18 at 08:26 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > We don't use uuid_be and the UUID_BE constants in any uapi headers, so make > > them private to the kernel. > > On the assumption that no user program uses them? > Is that a safe assumption?
It's not a userspace ABI, so by defintion it does not break an existing user program. If someone was using it they should be using uuid_t from libuuid instead, as that gives them the routines to deal with it.
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