On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 16:40 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2016 16:30:02 +0300 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko > @linux.intel.com> wrote: > > > > > There are few functions here and there along with type definitions > > that provide > > UUID API. This series consolidates everything under one hood and > > converts > > current users. > Well. It converts two current users. > > There are many references to "uuid" in the tree. How many sites > could > potentially benefit from this change? The big chunk is ACPI [1] though Rafael pointed out to some type dereferencing he didn't get [2]. (By the way there is already use of such in ACPI code from 2010: drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c). That's why I postponed that change. [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-acpi/msg63811.html [2] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-acpi/msg63854.html > > > > > This has been tested for a while internally, however it doesn't > > mean we covered > > all possible cases (especially accuracy of UUID constants after > > conversion). > > So, please test this as much as you can and provide your tag. We > > appreciate the > > effort. > I'm not sure who this series was aimed at but I saw "lib" and grabbed > it. I'll await Matt's ack. Yes, this is lib/ stuff, I hope the rest would provide Ack. -- Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Intel Finland Oy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
