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

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Date:   Mon, 21 Jan 2019 09:47:32 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Matias Bjorling <mb@...htnvm.io>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] : Switch to use new generic UUID API

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 04:30:51PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> There are new types and helpers that are supposed to be used in new code.
> 
> As a preparation to get rid of legacy types and API functions do
> the conversion here.

This seems to miss a "lightnvm" in the subject line.

>  static inline void pblk_setup_uuid(struct pblk *pblk)
>  {
> +	guid_gen((guid_t *)&pblk->instance_uuid);
>  }

I think we can just kill this wrapper.

But more importantly the instance_uuid fied, and the header.uuid one
it is copied from should be turned into an actual guid_t, the memcpys
and memcmps should also be replaced with the proper UUID API.