linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] nvme: use uuid_t in nvme

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Date:   Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:11:25 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>,
        Linux NVMe Mailinglist <linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] nvme: use uuid_t in nvme_ns

On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 12:04:18PM +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
>> > So, this reveals two thins:
>> > 1) shall we define NVME_NIDT_UUID_LEN to be UUID_LEN or substitute it
>> > completely with the latter?
>>
>> No, we have NVME_NIDT_UUID_LEN but also NVME_NIDT_NGUID_LEN and
>> NVME_NIDT_EUI64_LEN.
>
> Yeah, and I'd rather keep the defines for fields defined in the spec
> in nvme.h
>
>> I'm not sure the NVMe NGUID is the same as a GUID (a.k.a little endian
>> UUID). Quoting from the spec:
>
> It's not at all, the field just has a very unfortunate name in the
> spec.

Thanks for explanations.

So, wrt that
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko