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Message-ID: <CAK7LNAThgfr2p5G9eNViw48ha1+505xNAOeadiVp1_gqq9CABg@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 08:11:09 +0900 From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org> To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> Cc: linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>, Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>, Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu> Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] modpost: Mark uuid_le type to be suitable only for MEI On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 7:12 PM Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote: > > The uuid_le type is used only in MEI ABI, do not advertise it for others. > While at it, comment out that UUID types are not to be used in a new code. > > Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> > --- > Applied to linux-kbuild. Thanks. > If you confused by acrn user of the uuid_le type, the patch to fix that > is pending for v6.2 as well 1dbb4f0235a4 ("virt: acrn: Mark the uuid > field as unused"). Nevertheless this patch doesn't break the things and > hence can go independently to the respective tree. > > scripts/mod/file2alias.c | 12 ++++++++---- > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/scripts/mod/file2alias.c b/scripts/mod/file2alias.c > index 7df23905fdf1..91c2e7ba5e52 100644 > --- a/scripts/mod/file2alias.c > +++ b/scripts/mod/file2alias.c > @@ -34,19 +34,23 @@ typedef Elf64_Addr kernel_ulong_t; > typedef uint32_t __u32; > typedef uint16_t __u16; > typedef unsigned char __u8; > + > +/* UUID types for backward compatibility, don't use in new code */ > typedef struct { > __u8 b[16]; > } guid_t; > > -/* backwards compatibility, don't use in new code */ > -typedef struct { > - __u8 b[16]; > -} uuid_le; > typedef struct { > __u8 b[16]; > } uuid_t; > + > #define UUID_STRING_LEN 36 > > +/* MEI UUID type, don't use anywhere else */ > +typedef struct { > + __u8 b[16]; > +} uuid_le; > + > /* Big exception to the "don't include kernel headers into userspace, which > * even potentially has different endianness and word sizes, since > * we handle those differences explicitly below */ > -- > 2.35.1 > -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
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