linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert "firmware: dmi_scan: Use lowercase letters for UUID"

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Date:   Tue, 11 Dec 2018 13:06:14 +0100
From:   Peter Korsgaard <peter@...sgaard.com>
To:     Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "firmware: dmi_scan: Use lowercase letters for UUID"

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Korsgaard <peter@...sgaard.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