Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 01/12] util: Add UUID API

2016-09-18 Thread Jeff Cody
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 12:25:21PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote: > A number of different places across the code base use CONFIG_UUID. Some > of them are soft dependency, some are not built if libuuid is not > available, some come with dummy fallback, some throws runtime error. > > It is hard to

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 01/12] util: Add UUID API

2016-09-17 Thread Fam Zheng
A number of different places across the code base use CONFIG_UUID. Some of them are soft dependency, some are not built if libuuid is not available, some come with dummy fallback, some throws runtime error. It is hard to maintain, and hard to reason for users. Since UUID is a simple standard