RE: [PATCH v1 4/6] vmbus: Switch to use new generic UUID API

From: Haiyang Zhang
Date: Wed Jul 19 2017 - 16:18:36 EST




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> From: Andy Shevchenko [mailto:andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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> Subject: [PATCH v1 4/6] vmbus: Switch to use new generic UUID API
>


> @@ -118,8 +116,8 @@ enum hv_fcopy_op {
>
> struct hv_fcopy_hdr {
> __u32 operation;
> - uuid_le service_id0; /* currently unused */
> - uuid_le service_id1; /* currently unused */
> + __u8 service_id0[16]; /* currently unused */
> + __u8 service_id1[16]; /* currently unused */
> } __attribute__((packed));

Even user space may not have all guid_t operations, could you still
put guid_t here for consistency? This file is also used by our kernel
mode code.

Thanks,
- Haiyang