On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 11:21 AM, Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-05-03 at 21:34 +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
>> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 8:15 PM, Andy Shevchenko
>> <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > By the way, notice that uuid_v1 type (which had been moved to uuid.h
>> > already) is the same what xfs uses as uuid_t.
>> >
>> > So, helpers against it we can prefix with uuid_v1_[foo_bar()].
>> >
>>
>> I really don't see why we can't use the exact same helpers
>> found in fs/xfs/uuid.c and uuid_t as well for that matter.
>
> Does it make sense to have two types that defines the same?
>
>> They are mostly similar to the libuuid API that filesystems
>> tools use in userspace and they don't collide with your
>> uuid_{le|be} helpers.
>
> Okay, if you are insisting just move them to the header, we may simplify
> it later, though I think that there is no makes sense to do any effort
> that will be neglected in the future (so, just movement is fine, but
> using it elsewhere I prefer to have 1 type and const for parameters).
>
Preparing to post a series with
typedef struct uuid_v1 uuid_t;
I think you'll like it... stay tuned.
