The patch titled
Subject: uuid: discourage people from using UAPI header in new code
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
uuid-discourage-people-from-using-uapi-header-in-new-code.patch
This patch should soon appear at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/uuid-discourage-people-from-using-uapi-header-in-new-code.patch
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https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/uuid-discourage-people-from-using-uapi-header-in-new-code.patch
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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: uuid: discourage people from using UAPI header in new code
Discourage people from using UAPI header in new code by adding a note.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211216113552.81199-1-andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/uapi/linux/uuid.h | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/include/uapi/linux/uuid.h~uuid-discourage-people-from-using-uapi-header-in-new-code
+++ a/include/uapi/linux/uuid.h
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
+/* DO NOT USE in new code! This is solely for MEI due to legacy reasons */
/*
* UUID/GUID definition
*
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
include-linux-unaligned-replace-kernelh-with-the-necessary-inclusions.patch
kernelh-include-a-note-to-discourage-people-from-including-it-in-headers.patch
list-introduce-list_is_head-helper-and-re-use-it-in-listh.patch
kunit-replace-kernelh-with-the-necessary-inclusions.patch
uuid-discourage-people-from-using-uapi-header-in-new-code.patch
uuid-remove-licence-boilerplate-text-from-the-header.patch
