Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] mei: Move uuid_le_cmp() to its only user

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Feb 02 2023 - 10:22:49 EST


On Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 05:21:52PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 04:17:59PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 04:54:12PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > There is only a single user of uuid_le_cmp() API, let's make it private
> > > to that user.
> >
> > Any reason this code can't just use guid_t and guid_equal?
>
> It's part of ABI, while guid_* are for the internal use.
>
> Eventually they may switch to the internal types, but it's up to MEI.

How can a type name be part of a binary interface?