netdev - Re: [PATCH v1] ACPI: Switch to use generic UUID API

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Message-ID: <CAOQ4uxg6+_0KRMkMyupFJDtXrTqxx8vOz3=ZyEuj8BakvfuEJQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 5 May 2017 13:02:21 +0300
From:   Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Linux ACPI <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
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        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>,
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        Yisen Zhuang <yisen.zhuang@...wei.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
        Felipe Balbi <balbi@...nel.org>,
        Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@...el.com>,
        Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] ACPI: Switch to use generic UUID API

On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
> On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 12:50:31PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
>> To complete the picture for folks not cc'ed on my patches,
>> xfs use case suggests there is also justification for the additional helpers:
>>
>> uuid_is_null() / uuid_equal()
>> guid_is_null() / guid_equal()
>
> The is_null is useful and I bet we'll find other instances. I'm
> not sure _equals really adds much value over the existing _cmp
> helpers, but on the other hand they are so trivial that we might as
> well add them.

Exactly. The fact that not only xfs used the same helper name
(drivers/md/md.c) suggests that it useful.

>
> The other thing XFS has is uuid_copy.

Andy already listed uuid_copy.