Re: [PATCH 2/7] stm class: Replace uuid_t with plain u8 uuid[16]

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu Apr 15 2021 - 04:49:07 EST


On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 11:35 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 10:14:34PM +0300, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > >> Using raw buffer APIs against uuid_t / guid_t.
> > >
> > > So you want to do that, or you do not want to do that? Totally
> > > confused,
> >
> > My understanding is that:
> > 1) generate_random_uuid() use is allegedly bad even though it's in their
> > header,
> > 2) poking directly at the byte array inside uuid_t is bad, even though,
> > again, header.
> >
> > It is, indeed, not ideal.
> >
> > If agreeable, I'll update this patch to the below and respin the whole
> > series.
>
> You are showing that Andy wrote this, when you are the one that did :(

> Anyway, I've dropped this single patch from the series and applied the
> rest. Feel free to send this patch as a stand-alone one once you have
> the authorship issues sorted out.

Internally it was proposed by me as well, so authorship is correct.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko