[PATCH v1 4/6] vmbus: Switch to use new generic UUID API

Andy Shevchenko andy.shevchenko at gmail.com
Wed Jul 19 21:54:42 UTC 2017


On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 11:18 PM, Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz at microsoft.com> wrote:

>>  struct hv_fcopy_hdr {
>>       __u32 operation;
>> -     uuid_le service_id0; /* currently unused */
>> -     uuid_le service_id1; /* currently unused */
>> +     __u8 service_id0[16]; /* currently unused */
>> +     __u8 service_id1[16]; /* currently unused */
>>  } __attribute__((packed));
>
> Even user space may not have all guid_t operations, could you still
> put guid_t here for consistency?

I'm not sure how this code has been designed, though uuid_le followed
by guid_t are kernel internal types mistakenly put to UAPI in the
first place.

Consistency here is how we treat those types in user space, starting
from v4.13 uuid_be gone from that header. uuid_le is luckily will be
gone soon.

> This file is also used by our kernel
> mode code.

It will work still the same after this change.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko


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