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

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Date:   Thu, 24 Jan 2019 14:16:59 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Matias Bjorling <mb@...htnvm.io>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] : Switch to use new generic UUID API

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 09:47:32AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

header.uuid is defined using __u8 type, I'm not sure we can use guid_t there.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko