On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:15:51PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
>> > +static inline int uuid_cmp(const uuid_t u1, const uuid_t u2)
>> > {
>> > - return memcmp(&u1, &u2, sizeof(uuid_be));
>> > + return memcmp(&u1, &u2, sizeof(uuid_t));
>> > }
>> >
>>
>>
>> I think we should use this opportunity to change these to (uuid_t *, uuid_t *)
>> which is more in line with the rest of the helpers including the new helpers
>> hoisted from xfs.
>
> Or just kill them off - uuid/guid_equals is the better interface for all
> existing users as far as I can tell. My updated series already kills
> off the be/uuid one, the le/guid one will need a bit more work, though.
That works too. and for another argument, why need a helper uuid/guid_cmp
when one can use C comparison (i.e. u1 != u2) ? assuming that we have no
reason to abstract that fact that uuid_t/guid_t are a struct type.
