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SubjectRe: [PATCH v1 1/8] lib/uuid: Introduce uuid_{be|le}_cmp_p{p}() helpers
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On Sun, 2017-04-23 at 15:42 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Winkler, Tomas <tomas.winkler@intel.
> com> wrote:
> > > New helpers take pointers to uuid_{be|le} as parameters.
> > >
> > > When using them on a raw data we don't need to do an ugly
> > > dereference and,
> > > in some cases, a type casting.
> > I think this going overboard, the _pp types  are just enough.
>
> I looked at existing users and there are cases like
> #define XXX_UUID UUID_...(a, b, c, ...)
>
> uuid_.*_cmp(value, XXX_UUID)
>
> For _pp variant if would be _cmp_pp(value, &XXX_UUID) which is
> slightly worse than for _p variant.


Maybe it's worth to actually replace the defines with variables than to
create an interface with all the permutations.

Tomas
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