netdev - RE: [PATCH v4 5/7] thunderbolt: Networking state machine

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jul 2016 07:30:36 +0000
From:	"Levy, Amir (Jer)" <amir.jer.levy@...el.com>
To:	'Lukas Wunner' <lukas@...ner.de>
CC:	"andreas.noever@...il.com" <andreas.noever@...il.com>,
	"gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"bhelgaas@...gle.com" <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	thunderbolt-linux <thunderbolt-linux@...el.com>,
	"Westerberg, Mika" <mika.westerberg@...el.com>,
	"Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v4 5/7] thunderbolt: Networking state machine

On Mon, Jul 25 2016, 01:36 AM, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 01:00:38PM +0300, Amir Levy wrote:
> > +	const unique_id_be proto_uuid =
> APPLE_THUNDERBOLT_IP_PROTOCOL_UUID;
> > +
> > +	if (memcmp(proto_uuid, hdr->apple_tbt_ip_proto_uuid,
> > +		   sizeof(proto_uuid)) != 0) {
> 
> You may want to use the uuid_be data type provided by <linux/uuid.h>
> instead of rolling your own, as well as the helper uuid_be_cmp() defined
> ibidem.
> 

All the messages in Thunderbolt consist BE DWORDs.
I didn't find uuid definition in the kernel that accurately describes the uuid structure in the messages, which is 4 BE DWORDs.
But on the other hand, all the driver does is copy/compare of uuids, and it can treat uuids as byte array (i.e. uuid_be).
I'll change it in the next patches.