Alison Schofield wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 08:58:35PM -0600, Ira Weiny wrote:
> > DCD regions have 0 or more extents. The ability to list those and their
> > properties is useful to end users.
> >
> > Add an option for extent output to region queries. An example of this
> > is:
> >
> > $ ./build/cxl/cxl list -r 8 -Nu
> > {
> > "region":"region8",
> > ...
> > "type":"dc",
> > ...
> > "extents":[
> > {
> > "offset":"0x10000000",
> > "length":"64.00 MiB (67.11 MB)",
> > "tag":"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
>
> Why do we call these 'tag' and not uid?
Because that is what they were called in the spec. But Linux has decided
they will all be uuids so. yea this should change.
> We use the uid helpers on them so I know they share the format.
Yep. I just omitted changing the label on the output.
Beyond this I think if we are going this way it is best to purge the
kernel of such language as well. So I went and did that too.
Ira
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