On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:04:57 +0800, "zhenzhong.duan" <[email protected]> wrote :
> As of version 2.6 of the SMBIOS specification, the first 3
> fields of the UUID are supposed to be encoded on little-endian.
>
> Also a minor fix to match variable meaning and mute checkpatch.pl
>
I'm late to the party, as this patch went into 3.8, mimicking a patch
sent in 2011:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/1/19/260
Only problem: it breaks the ABI. By changing the value of the DMI?UUID
previously sent by the kernel, any application relying on this UUID is
likely to break with 3.8.
I don't know if I should be happy I finally can drop this patch from my
tree, or sad that a different process let it through.
Regards,
Anisse