linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] mei: Move uuid.h to the MEI namespace

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Message-ID: <ZBR1PWRY7ql7VIth@smile.fi.intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 17 Mar 2023 16:12:13 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio@...el.com>,
        Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>,
        Vitaly Lubart <vitaly.lubart@...el.com>,
        Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>,
        Alexander Graf <graf@...zon.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] mei: Move uuid.h to the MEI namespace

On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 03:07:45PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 07:07:47PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > There is only a single user of the UUID uAPI, let's make it
> > part of that user.
> > 
> > The way it's done is to prevent compilation time breakage for
> > the user space that does
> > 
> > 	#include <linux/uuid.h>
> > 
> > In the future MEI user space tools can switch over to use mei_uuid.h.
> 
> When will that happen?

I don't know

> And why the churn, what's the problem with keeping this as uuid.h?

The problem here is a possible confusion with uAPI and internal headers with
the same name.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko