Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] util: Add UUID API

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 4:44 PM Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:

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> On 03/08/2016 04:36, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > On Tue, 08/02 15:45, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Fam Zheng" <address@hidden>
> >>> To: address@hidden
> >>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
> address@hidden, address@hidden,
> >>> address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
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> >>> Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2016 11:18:32 AM
> >>> Subject: [PATCH 1/7] util: Add UUID API
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> >>> 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.
>

For info, there has been glib UUID proposal for a while:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=639078

Although quite ready, the discussion stopped because some dev believe
g_uuid_string_random() is all you need. Anyway, if ever accepted, it would
take another 5y or so to be acceptable for qemu :)

-- 
Marc-André Lureau