lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2019]   [Aug]   [27]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH] uuid: Add helpers for finding UUID from an array
On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 02:49:18PM +0300, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> Matching function that compares every UUID in an array to a
> given UUID with guid_equal().
>
> Signed-off-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> Hi,
>
> I don't have a user for these helpers, but since they are pretty
> trivial, I figured that might as well propose them in any case.
> Though, I think there was somebody proposing of doing the same thing
> that these helpers do at one point, but just the hard way in the
> drivers, right Andy?

XFS has something similar in xfs_uuid_mount, except that it also
tracks empty slots. That beeing said I'm pretty sure if you ask willy
he's suggest to just convert the table to an xarray instead :)

So I'm defintively curious what the users would be where we just check
a table, but don't also add something to the table.

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2019-08-27 13:54    [W:0.038 / U:0.132 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site