On Mon, 2021-10-18 at 09:05 -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Sat, 2021-10-09 at 21:08 +0800, Tianjia Zhang wrote:
> [...]
> > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/hash_info.h
> > b/include/uapi/linux/hash_info.h
> > index 74a8609fcb4d..1355525dd4aa 100644
> > --- a/include/uapi/linux/hash_info.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/hash_info.h
> > @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ enum hash_algo {
> > HASH_ALGO_TGR_128,
> > HASH_ALGO_TGR_160,
> > HASH_ALGO_TGR_192,
> > - HASH_ALGO_SM3_256,
> > + HASH_ALGO_SM3,
> > HASH_ALGO_STREEBOG_256,
> > HASH_ALGO_STREEBOG_512,
> > HASH_ALGO__LAST
>
> This is another one you can't do: all headers in UAPI are exports to
> userspace and the definitions constitute an ABI. If you simply do a
> rename, every userspace program that uses the current definition will
> immediately break on compile. You could add HASH_ALGO_SM3, but you
> can't remove HASH_ALGO_SM3_256
>
> James
So: shouldn't then also the old symbol continue to work also
semantically?
/Jarkko
