Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] lib/vsprintf.c: Further simplify uuid_string()

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue May 12 2015 - 12:59:51 EST


On Tue, 2015-05-12 at 09:57 -0400, George Spelvin wrote:
> > Acked-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > You may want/need to include Andrew Morton in the cc-list to get these
> > picked up.
>
> Thank you; I sent it to you because I'm not sure who's really in charge
> of this.

Andrew generally gets these sorts of changes applied.

> >> + /* Insert the fixed punctuation */
> >> + uuid[23] = uuid[18] = uuid[13] = uuid[8] = '-';
> >> + uuid[36] = 0;
>
> > I think '\0' is more common.
>
> It's that way beause of it was replacing
>
> >> - *p = 0;
>
> But yes, I prefer the char constant, too. And it would be consistent with
> the rest of the file.

I think I did that "*p = 0;" because that's what
I normally use, but consistency is better.


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