Re: [PATCH v1] hyper-v: Remove internal types from UAPI header

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On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 04:18:18PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> The uuid_le mistakenly comes to be an UAPI type. Since it's luckily not used by
> Hyper-V APIs, we may replace with POD types, i.e. __u8 array.
> 
> Note, previously shared uuid_be had been removed from UAPI few releases ago.
> This is a continuation of that process towards removing uuid_le one.
> 
> Note, there is no ABI change!
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Can you clarify why guid_t is not used instead? Is the plan to remove it
from UAPI as well?

Wei.

> ---
>  include/uapi/linux/hyperv.h | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/hyperv.h b/include/uapi/linux/hyperv.h
> index 991b2b7ada7a3..8f24404ad04f1 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/hyperv.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/hyperv.h
> @@ -119,8 +119,8 @@ enum hv_fcopy_op {
>  
>  struct hv_fcopy_hdr {
>  	__u32 operation;
> -	uuid_le service_id0; /* currently unused */
> -	uuid_le service_id1; /* currently unused */
> +	__u8 service_id0[16]; /* currently unused */
> +	__u8 service_id1[16]; /* currently unused */
>  } __attribute__((packed));
>  
>  #define OVER_WRITE	0x1
> -- 
> 2.26.1
> 



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