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

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Fri Mar 17 2023 - 10:12:44 EST


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.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko