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SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/22] Revert "afs: Move UUID struct to linux/uuid.h"
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 11:00:04AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> This isn't going to work. You've effectively changed the types of the fields
> in the UUID struct from BE to CPU-endian, but you're still calling
> generate_random_uuid(), which produces a BE UUID. You need to leave the
> struct members as __beXX or stop using the core UUID routines.
>
> Just move the struct uuid_v1 as-is to the afs headers and rename it to struct
> afs_uuid. You can then leave the (un)marshalling code alone.

That's one option. The other option would be to revert

"afs: Use core kernel UUID generation", as that also changed the
v1 UUID to a v4 uuid. Does the afs protocol require a v1 uuid
or does it just use the formwat on the wire?

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