Re: [PATCH 03/23] uuid: remove uuid_be defintions from the uapi header

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 12:12:45AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-05-18 at 08:26 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > We don't use uuid_be and the UUID_BE constants in any uapi headers, so make
> > them private to the kernel.
> 
> On the assumption that no user program uses them?
> Is that a safe assumption?

It's not a userspace ABI, so by defintion it does not break an
existing user program.  If someone was using it they should be using
uuid_t from libuuid instead, as that gives them the routines to deal
with it.