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Message-ID: <87pmyvgb01.fsf@ashishki-desk.ger.corp.intel.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 12:20:14 +0300
From: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] stm class: Replace uuid_t with plain u8 uuid[16]
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 10:14:34PM +0300, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
>> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> writes:
>>
>> >> Using raw buffer APIs against uuid_t / guid_t.
>> >
>> > So you want to do that, or you do not want to do that? Totally
>> > confused,
>>
>> My understanding is that:
>> 1) generate_random_uuid() use is allegedly bad even though it's in their
>> header,
>> 2) poking directly at the byte array inside uuid_t is bad, even though,
>> again, header.
>>
>> It is, indeed, not ideal.
>>
>> If agreeable, I'll update this patch to the below and respin the whole
>> series.
>
> You are showing that Andy wrote this, when you are the one that did :(
That's intentional, it's Andy's patch. In fact, it was probably me who
insisted on the open-coded-byte-array version, in an offline
conversation some time ago. I'd like to keep his name on it if that's
ok. I've re-sent it [1] as a standalone patch.
> Anyway, I've dropped this single patch from the series and applied the
> rest. Feel free to send this patch as a stand-alone one once you have
> the authorship issues sorted out.
Thank you!
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210415091555.88085-1-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com/
Regards,
--
Alex
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