linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] afs: correctly use 64-bit time for UUID

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Date:   Wed, 11 Jan 2017 14:47:20 +0000
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@...il.com>,
        linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] afs: correctly use 64-bit time for UUID

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:

> > Is it worth abstracting out in-kernel UUID generation?
> 
> Do you mean moving it out of AFS into lib/*.c? I think the 'afs_uuid'
> structure is quite different from other UUID definitions, so that wouldn't
> work.

afs_uuid is as it is to make it easier to package into the on-wire format, but
I suspect there's no problem with using a completely random UUID instead and
divvying it up the same way.

David