linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 4/6] vmbus: Switch to use new generic UUID API

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Date:   Thu, 20 Jul 2017 00:54:42 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        "linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "devel@...uxdriverproject.org" <devel@...uxdriverproject.org>,
        "sparmaintainer@...sys.com" <sparmaintainer@...sys.com>,
        "devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
        "linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org" <linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-efi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>,
        KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 4/6] vmbus: Switch to use new generic UUID API

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 11:18 PM, Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com> wrote:

>>  struct hv_fcopy_hdr {
>>       __u32 operation;
>> -     uuid_le service_id0; /* currently unused */
>> -     uuid_le service_id1; /* currently unused */
>> +     __u8 service_id0[16]; /* currently unused */
>> +     __u8 service_id1[16]; /* currently unused */
>>  } __attribute__((packed));
>
> Even user space may not have all guid_t operations, could you still
> put guid_t here for consistency?

I'm not sure how this code has been designed, though uuid_le followed
by guid_t are kernel internal types mistakenly put to UAPI in the
first place.

Consistency here is how we treat those types in user space, starting
from v4.13 uuid_be gone from that header. uuid_le is luckily will be
gone soon.

> This file is also used by our kernel
> mode code.

It will work still the same after this change.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko