From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38062) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bUfdS-0004zM-QI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2016 15:45:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bUfdR-0005Bf-Ub for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2016 15:45:54 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 15:45:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <1180678412.13134125.1470167146088.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1470129518-21087-2-git-send-email-famz@redhat.com> References: <1470129518-21087-1-git-send-email-famz@redhat.com> <1470129518-21087-2-git-send-email-famz@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] util: Add UUID API List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Fam Zheng Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, berrange@redhat.com, kwolf@redhat.com, mreitz@redhat.com, mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com, armbru@redhat.com, sw@weilnetz.de, qemu-block@nongnu.org ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Fam Zheng" > To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org > Cc: famz@redhat.com, berrange@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, kwolf@redhat.com, mreitz@redhat.com, > mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com, armbru@redhat.com, sw@weilnetz.de, qemu-block@nongnu.org > Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2016 11:18:32 AM > Subject: [PATCH 1/7] util: Add UUID API > > A number of different places across the code base use CONFIG_UUID. Some > of them are soft dependency, some are not built if libuuid is not > available, some come with dummy fallback, some throws runtime error. > > It is hard to maintain, and hard to reason for users. > > Since UUID is a simple standard with only a small number of operations, > it is cleaner to have a central support in libqemuutil. This patch adds > qemu_uuid_* the functions so that all uuid users in the code base can > rely on. Except for qemu_uuid_generate which is new code, all other > functions are just copy from existing fallbacks from other files. How is g_random_* seeded? Paolo