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uuid: Add inline helpers to import / export UUIDs
authorAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:37:49 +0000 (17:37 +0200)
committerDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Mon, 23 Mar 2020 16:01:46 +0000 (17:01 +0100)
commitd01cd62400b3a42d012069518614d944c35f9c99
treef408863a263a368987777c6773f637a073c82489
parentb3ff8f1d380e65dddd772542aa9bff6c86bf715a
uuid: Add inline helpers to import / export UUIDs

Sometimes we may need to import UUID from or export to the raw buffer,
which is provided outside of kernel and can't be declared as UUID type.
With current API this operation will require an explicit casting
to one of UUID types and length, that is always a constant derived as sizeof
the certain UUID type.

Provide a helpful set of inline helpers to minimize developer's effort
in the cases when raw buffers are involved.

Suggested-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
include/linux/uuid.h