[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2 4/5] ACPI / extlog: Switch to use new generic UUID API

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Mon Jun 5 21:23:46 UTC 2017


On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 07:23:05PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > From a quick look over the tree it seems like both fru_id and
> > section_type should be declared as guid_t in
> > struct acpi_hest_generic_data.
> 
> 
> They are arrays of 16 u8:s.

As is the guid_t.

> And since it's defined in ACPI table definition I'm not sure we can
> change it.

If we always use 16 u8s as guid_t we might as well define the structure
as such, instead of all the casts that remove type safety.


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