linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] modpost: Mark uuid

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Message-ID: <YVb7QvVzNrWzwBna@smile.fi.intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 1 Oct 2021 15:12:50 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>,
        Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>,
        Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] modpost: Mark uuid_le type only for MEI

On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 01:59:45PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 02:37:44PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > The uuid_le type is used only for MEI ABI, do not advertise it for others.
> > Due to above, bury add_uuid() in its only user.
> 
> Why not just remove it from the user and move to using guid_t instead?
> 
> And then remove this code entirely?

The idea is to decouple ABI available type (uuid_le) from kernel internal one
(guid_t).


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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko