[PATCH] afs: correctly use 64-bit time for UUID
David Howells
dhowells at redhat.com
Wed Jan 11 06:47:20 PST 2017
Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> 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
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