On 9 June 2015 at 13:29, Joe Stringer <joestrin...@nicira.com> wrote:
> On 9 June 2015 at 12:33, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 11:41:04AM -0700, Joe Stringer wrote:
>>> On 7 June 2015 at 11:03, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
>>> > On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 06:22:19PM -0700, Joe Stringer wrote:
>>> >> Unique flow identifiers are really a UUID of sorts, so it makes sense to
>>> >> reuse the UUID string representations for UFID.
>>> >>
>>> >> Suggested-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
>>> >> Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestrin...@nicira.com>
>>> >
>>> > Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
>>>
>>> It strikes me that it may be somewhat misleading to print UFIDs as
>>> UUIDs, given that there are specific bits with particular meaning in
>>> the UUID standards. One way to resolve this would be to tweak the UFID
>>> generation to create variant 4 UUIDs ("random") by overwriting the
>>> appropriate bits after hashing.
>>
>> The same did occur to me. It's probably a good idea, if you're up for
>> it.
>
> Sure. It should be a minor patch on top of this.
I applied this series to master, thanks.
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