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

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wednesday, January 11, 2017 2:47:20 PM CET David Howells wrote:
> 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.

Maybe like this:

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