From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755433AbZJNGam (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:30:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755186AbZJNGam (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:30:42 -0400 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]:52050 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754871AbZJNGal (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:30:41 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,555,1249282800"; d="scan'208";a="198717070" Subject: [RFC 0/2] Unified UUID/GUID definition From: Huang Ying To: Andrew Morton , Joe Perches , Steven Whitehouse , Laurent Pinchart Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:30:03 +0800 Message-Id: <1255501803.6047.1191.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, All, This patchset is an attempt to provide a unified UUID/GUID definition to replace various UUID/GUID definitions in current kernel. This will make kernel source more readable and unify some duplicated efforts. This is a RFC to talk about the general UUID/GUID definition design. Only UUID/GUID is used by many modules/subsystems in kernel. But this patchset only replace one of them to use the new definition as an example. After consensus is reached, we can replace other UUID/GUID usage too. This patchset is based on Joe's UUID printk support patchset: [PATCH 0/9] Add vsprintf extension %pU to print UUID/GUIDs and use it Any comment is welcome. Best Regards, Huang Ying