linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/23] uuid: remove uuid_be defintions from the uapi header

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Date:   Thu, 18 May 2017 00:12:45 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>,
        Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/23] uuid: remove uuid_be defintions from the uapi
 header

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?

> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/uuid.h b/include/uapi/linux/uuid.h
> index 3738e5fb6a4d..0099756c4bac 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/uuid.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/uuid.h
> @@ -24,10 +24,6 @@ typedef struct {
>  	__u8 b[16];
>  } uuid_le;
>  
> -typedef struct {
> -	__u8 b[16];
> -} uuid_be;
> -
>  #define UUID_LE(a, b, c, d0, d1, d2, d3, d4, d5, d6, d7)		\
>  ((uuid_le)								\
>  {{ (a) & 0xff, ((a) >> 8) & 0xff, ((a) >> 16) & 0xff, ((a) >> 24) & 0xff, \
> @@ -35,20 +31,8 @@ typedef struct {
>     (c) & 0xff, ((c) >> 8) & 0xff,					\
>     (d0), (d1), (d2), (d3), (d4), (d5), (d6), (d7) }})
>  
> -#define UUID_BE(a, b, c, d0, d1, d2, d3, d4, d5, d6, d7)		\
> -((uuid_be)								\
> -{{ ((a) >> 24) & 0xff, ((a) >> 16) & 0xff, ((a) >> 8) & 0xff, (a) & 0xff, \
> -   ((b) >> 8) & 0xff, (b) & 0xff,					\
> -   ((c) >> 8) & 0xff, (c) & 0xff,					\
> -   (d0), (d1), (d2), (d3), (d4), (d5), (d6), (d7) }})
> -
>  #define NULL_UUID_LE							\
>  	UUID_LE(0x00000000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,	\
>  		0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00)
>  
> -#define NULL_UUID_BE							\
> -	UUID_BE(0x00000000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,	\
> -		0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00)
> -
> -
>  #endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_UUID_H_ */