On Fri, 2019-06-07 at 06:47:05 UTC, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" wrote: > We used uuid_parse to convert uuid string from device tree to two u64 > components. We want to make sure we look at the uuid read from device > tree in an endian-neutral fashion. For now, I am picking little-endian > to be format so that we don't end up doing an additional conversion. > > The reason to store in a specific endian format is to enable reading > the namespace created with a little-endian kernel config on a big-endian > kernel. > We do store the device tree uuid string as a 64-bit little-endian cookie in > the > label area. When booting the kernel we also compare this cookie > against what is read from the device tree. For this, to work we have > to store and compare these values in a CPU endian config independent fashion. > > Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.ku...@linux.ibm.com>
Applied to powerpc next, thanks. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/259a948c4ba1829ae4a3c31bb6e40ad458a21254 cheers
