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

[David Howells]

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> 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