Jiewen,

NetLibGetSystemGuid is also used by some other drivers like DHCP6, and it's 
acceptable to not use system GUID as client identifier in DHCP protocol. That's 
why I only add the warning in PXE driver.

BestRegards
Fu Siyuan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yao, Jiewen
> Sent: Friday, February 2, 2018 11:47 AM
> To: Fu, Siyuan <siyuan...@intel.com>; edk2-devel@lists.01.org
> Subject: RE: [edk2] [Patch 0/2] NetworkPkg: Add warning message for PXE if
> failed to read system GUID from SMBIOS.
> 
> Hi Siyuan
> It is great idea to add such warning message to help debug such PXE issue.
> 
> Do you think it will be better if we add such info in NetLib -
> NetLibGetSystemGuid().
> 
> As such, we don't need update all consumers.
> 
> Thank you
> Yao Jiewen
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-boun...@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of
> Fu
> > Siyuan
> > Sent: Friday, February 2, 2018 11:29 AM
> > To: edk2-devel@lists.01.org
> > Subject: [edk2] [Patch 0/2] NetworkPkg: Add warning message for PXE if
> failed
> > to read system GUID from SMBIOS.
> >
> > Current PXE driver uses zero GUID if failed to get the system GUID from
> smbios
> > table, and some OS PXE boot may fail in such case. This patch is to add
> a warning
> > message to inform user that smbios table is missed on the platform.
> >
> > Fu Siyuan (2):
> >   NetworkPkg: Add warning message for PXE if failed to read system GUID
> >     from SMBIOS.
> >   MdeModulePkg/PXE: Add warning message for PXE if failed to read system
> >     GUID from SMBIOS.
> >
> >  MdeModulePkg/Universal/Network/UefiPxeBcDxe/PxeBcDhcp.c | 5 ++++-
> >  NetworkPkg/UefiPxeBcDxe/PxeBcDhcp4.c                    | 3 +++
> >  NetworkPkg/UefiPxeBcDxe/PxeBcImpl.c                     | 1 +
> >  3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > --
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