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

Joe Perches
2016-06-05T15:34:40Z

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.