[PATCH] nvme-fabrics: change NQN UUID to big-endian format

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Wed Jun 29 23:41:53 PDT 2016


On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 11:20:23AM -0700, Daniel Verkamp wrote:
> NVM Express 1.2.1 section 7.9, NVMe Qualified Names, specifies that the
> UUID format of NQN uses a UUID based on RFC 4122.
> 
> RFC 4122 specifies that the UUID is encoded in big-endian byte order.
> 
> Switch the NVMe over Fabrics host ID field from little-endian UUID to
> big-endian UUID to match the specification.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Verkamp <daniel.verkamp at intel.com>

Thanks a lot Daniel, I'll send this on to Jens.



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