linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] uuid: Make guid_t completely internal type to the kernel

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Date:   Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:38:16 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] uuid: Make guid_t completely internal type to
 the kernel

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 04:07:45PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > 
> > IMHO we should kill this header entirely and move the definition to
> > <uapi/linux/mei.h> under a new name so that no one picks up the
> > definition by accident.
> 
> I would like to do that in a separate series. Here I don't change the status
> quo about using it, but for moving it will require to touch MEI code.

Maybe just keep a dummy empty uapi/linux/uuid.h if that is so much
of a problem.