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Re: [PATCH] afs: correctly use 64-bit time for UUID

From David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] afs: correctly use 64-bit time for UUID
Date 2017-01-11 15:50 +0100
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Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:

> > Is it worth abstracting out in-kernel UUID generation?
> 
> Do you mean moving it out of AFS into lib/*.c? I think the 'afs_uuid'
> structure is quite different from other UUID definitions, so that wouldn't
> work.

afs_uuid is as it is to make it easier to package into the on-wire format, but
I suspect there's no problem with using a completely random UUID instead and
divvying it up the same way.

David

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[PATCH] afs: correctly use 64-bit time for UUID Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-01-11 14:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] afs: correctly use 64-bit time for UUID David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2017-01-11 15:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] afs: correctly use 64-bit time for UUID Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-01-11 15:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] afs: correctly use 64-bit time for UUID David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2017-01-11 15:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] afs: correctly use 64-bit time for UUID Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-01-11 17:00 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] afs: use random UUID kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2017-01-12 10:30 +0100

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