On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:04:57 +0800, "zhenzhong.duan" <zhenzhong.d...@oracle.com> wrote :
> As of version 2.6 of the SMBIOS specification, the first 3 > fields of the UUID are supposed to be encoded on little-endian. > > Also a minor fix to match variable meaning and mute checkpatch.pl > I'm late to the party, as this patch went into 3.8, mimicking a patch sent in 2011: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/1/19/260 Only problem: it breaks the ABI. By changing the value of the DMI UUID previously sent by the kernel, any application relying on this UUID is likely to break with 3.8. I don't know if I should be happy I finally can drop this patch from my tree, or sad that a different process let it through. Regards, Anisse -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
