> New helpers take pointers to uuid_{be|le} as parameters.
>
> When using them on a raw data we don't need to do an ugly dereference and,
> in some cases, a type casting.
>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
> Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdw...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Mark Brown <broo...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.k...@intel.com>
> Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruv...@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoi...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Kirti Wankhede <kwankh...@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.william...@redhat.com>
> Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <k...@microsoft.com>
> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiya...@microsoft.com>
> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthem...@microsoft.com>
> Cc: Tomas Winkler <tomas.wink...@intel.com>
> Cc: Matt Fleming <m...@codeblueprint.co.uk>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <r...@rjwysocki.net>
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevche...@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> include/linux/uuid.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/uuid.h b/include/linux/uuid.h index
> 4dff73a89758..45312cb5ac65 100644
> --- a/include/linux/uuid.h
> +++ b/include/linux/uuid.h
> @@ -58,6 +58,26 @@ static inline int uuid_be_cmp(const uuid_be u1, const
> uuid_be u2)
> return memcmp(&u1, &u2, sizeof(uuid_be)); }
>
> +static inline int uuid_le_cmp_p(const uuid_le *pu1, const uuid_le u2) {
> + return memcmp(pu1, &u2, sizeof(uuid_le)); }
> +
> +static inline int uuid_be_cmp_p(const uuid_be *pu1, const uuid_be u2) {
> + return memcmp(pu1, &u2, sizeof(uuid_be)); }
> +
> +static inline int uuid_le_cmp_pp(const uuid_le *pu1, const uuid_le
> +*pu2) {
> + return memcmp(pu1, pu2, sizeof(uuid_le)); }
> +
> +static inline int uuid_be_cmp_pp(const uuid_be *pu1, const uuid_be
> +*pu2) {
> + return memcmp(pu1, pu2, sizeof(uuid_be)); }
> +
> void generate_random_uuid(unsigned char uuid[16]);
>
> extern void uuid_le_gen(uuid_le *u);
I think this going overboard, the _pp types are just enough.
Tomas
