Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] lib/uuid.c: eliminate uuid_[bl]e_index arrays

Andy Shevchenko
2016-06-05T16:14:43Z

On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 08:34 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 17:19 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Sat, 2016-06-04 at 09:29 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > (adding acpi folks)
> > > Trivially, acpi defines this but doesn't seem to use it.
> > >
> > > include/acpi/acconfig.h:#define UUID_STRING_LENGTH          36  /*
> > > Total length of a UUID string */
> > >
> > > And Ingo commented last month:
> > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/29/69
> > >
> > > Maybe this __uuid_to_bin function should be made public and
> > > the acpi version in drivers/acpi/acpica/utuuid.c should be
> > > removed.
> > Looks like you missed my first version of (other) series.
> > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-api/msg17518.html
>
> More like if a patch isn't applied after several months,
> it's likely not going to be applied unless it is resent.

The discussion was about how to proceed with uuid_*_cmp() functions that
have prototypes like uuid_le x1, x2. Any ideas come to mind?

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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
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