Re: [PATCH v2 04/11] staging: pi433: Rename enum optionOnOff in rf69_enum.h

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On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 12:31:31PM +0200, Marcus Wolf wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 06.12.2017 um 12:23 schrieb Dan Carpenter:
> > On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 11:46:41AM +0200, Marcus Wolf wrote:
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/pi433/rf69_enum.h b/drivers/staging/pi433/rf69_enum.h
> > > > index babe597e2ec6..5247e9269de9 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/staging/pi433/rf69_enum.h
> > > > +++ b/drivers/staging/pi433/rf69_enum.h
> > > > @@ -18,9 +18,9 @@
> > > >    #ifndef RF69_ENUM_H
> > > >    #define RF69_ENUM_H
> > > > -enum optionOnOff {
> > > > -	optionOff,
> > > > -	optionOn
> > > > +enum option_on_off {
> > > > +	OPTION_OFF,
> > > > +	OPTION_ON
> > > >    };
> > > >    enum mode {
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi Simon,
> > > 
> > > nice work.
> > > 
> > > Thank you very much for all the style fixes :-)
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > Wow...  This was the one patch I thought was going to sink this
> > patchset...
> 
> I don't get that. What do you mean?
> 
> > Isn't enum optionOnOff part of the userspace headers?
> > 
> > I thought we weren't allowed to change that.
> 
> All enums are for user space (or inteded to be used in userspace in future).
> Didn't introduce enums for internal use.

So what I'm asking is if we do this change, does it break any userspace
programs which are used *right now*.  In other words will programs stop
compiling because we've renamed an enum?

regards,
dan carpenter

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