From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>,
Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/16] fs: switch ->s_uuid to uuid_t
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 09:58:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170511075825.GB19837@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOQ4uxga2U6OS8N5MnBoytyWP8Fbf8qQCS1cnsPqjoby=Mxc1w@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:08:25PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 9:02 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> > For some file systems we still memcpy into it, but in various places this
> > already allows us to use the proper uuid helpers. More to come..
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> > ---
>
> Series looks good!
>
> My main concern is that filesystems with char uuid[16] are here to stay,
> or maybe, will be converted slowly.
I'll take a stab to convert them ASAP, and add s_uuid support for you
to more file systems once this initial series is done.
>
> Considering this, perhaps we should have a helper/macro to copy from
> char[16] to *uuid_t and maybe BUILD_BUG_ON the size comparison?
> #define bytes_to_uuid(dst, src) ...
If the mix of proper types and u8 arrays was to stay that'd be the way
to go, but I'd rather fix things up in a merge window or two instead
of leaving us in a transitionary state forever.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-11 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-10 18:01 cleanup UUID types Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-10 18:01 ` [PATCH 01/16] xfs: use uuid_copy() helper to abstract uuid_t Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-10 18:02 ` [PATCH 02/16] xfs: use uuid_be to implement the uuid_t type Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-10 18:02 ` [PATCH 03/16] uuid: rename uuid types Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-10 19:15 ` Amir Goldstein
2017-05-11 7:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-11 8:31 ` Amir Goldstein
2017-05-10 18:02 ` [PATCH 04/16] uuid: don't export guid_index and uuid_index Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-10 18:02 ` [PATCH 05/16] uuid: add the v1 layout to uuid_t Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-11 11:40 ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-05-11 12:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-10 18:02 ` [PATCH 06/16] afs: switch to use uuid_t and uuid_gen Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-10 18:02 ` [PATCH 07/16] uuid: remove struct uuid_v1 Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-10 18:02 ` [PATCH 08/16] xfs: remove uuid_getnodeuniq and xfs_uu_t Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-10 18:02 ` [PATCH 09/16] md: namespace private helper names Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-10 18:02 ` [PATCH 10/16] uuid: hoist helpers uuid_equal() and uuid_copy() from xfs Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-10 18:02 ` [PATCH 11/16] uuid: hoist uuid_is_null() helper from libnvdimm Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-10 18:02 ` [PATCH 12/16] xfs: use the common helper uuid_is_null() Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-10 18:02 ` [PATCH 13/16] block: remove blk_part_pack_uuid Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-10 18:02 ` [PATCH 14/16] " Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-10 18:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-10 18:02 ` [PATCH 15/16] ima/policy: switch to use uuid_t Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-10 18:02 ` [PATCH 16/16] fs: switch ->s_uuid to uuid_t Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-10 19:08 ` Amir Goldstein
2017-05-11 7:58 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-05-10 18:20 ` [PATCH 03/16] uuid: rename uuid types David Howells
2017-05-11 11:38 ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-05-10 18:21 ` [PATCH 05/16] uuid: add the v1 layout to uuid_t David Howells
2017-05-10 18:22 ` [PATCH 06/16] afs: switch to use uuid_t and uuid_gen David Howells
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