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

From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 22:08:57 +0300

On Thu, 2017-05-04 at 12:21 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> acpi_evaluate_dsm() and friends take a pointer to a raw buffer of 16
> bytes. Instead we convert them to use uuid_le type. At the same time
> we
> convert current users.
> 
> acpi_str_to_uuid() becomes useless after the conversion and it's safe
> to
> get rid of it.
> 
> The conversion fixes a potential bug in int340x_thermal as well since
> we have to use memcmp() on binary data.
> 
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/[email-masked]>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Dan Williams <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Amir Goldstein <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/[email-masked]>
> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/[email-masked]>
> Cc: Ben Skeggs <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Benjamin Tissoires <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Joerg Roedel <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Yisen Zhuang <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Zhang Rui <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Felipe Balbi <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Mathias Nyman <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/[email-masked]>
> Cc: Liam Girdwood <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Mark Brown <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/[email-masked]>

Thank you everyone who gave a tag to this.

I'm going to split and rebase on top of Christoph's branch
http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/vfs.git/shortlog/refs/heads/uuid-type
s

followed by changing types and API calls accordingly (without changing a
logic!).

So, I would like to keep tags in place. If there is any objection, speak
up now!
 
Thanks!

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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/[email-masked]>
Intel Finland Oy