Re: [PATCH v2 2/8] xfs: re-define uuid_t as common struct uuid_v1

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On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 04:26:17PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
>> xfs was defining a non namespaced type named uuid_t and for no good
>> reason. xfs code doesn't care about the internals of uuid_t struct -
>> it only cares about its size.
>>
>> Re-define uuid_t as the common struct uuid_v1 in include/linux/uuid.h
>> and get rid of the xfs private definition.
>
> I'm not sure this really is a good idea.  uuid_v1 currently is only
> used by afs.  I'd much rather switch both afs and xfs to use the
> uuid_be type (which might as well grow the standard uuid_t name while
> we're at it), and use accessors that do the byte-array access for
> the very few places that care about the interpretation.
>

I did consider defining uuid_t as uuid_be.
most of the patch set would have remained the same and
xfs_uuid_getnodeuniq() would use struct uuid_v1 explicitly
instead of implicitly.

Bare in mind that we do need to make small steps, so
I wouldn't mix killing uuid_v1 and actors with this review.

Amir.
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