Re: [PATCH v1] : Switch to use new generic UUID API

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu Jan 24 2019 - 11:38:42 EST


On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 4:36 PM Javier GonzÃlez <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It is not pushed anywhere yet, but I have been working on a tool to make
> a pblk recovery tool to enable FTL repairs if something fails in the
> kernel recovery path. Here, I use this uuid to identify the
> instance - is there a way to reconcile guid_t with user space, which
> currently uses the __u8?

For Linux there is util-linux which contains libuuid. There is uuid_t type.
Unfortunately there is no so called LE (little endian) variant.
Perhaps someone would need to extend the support for that.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko