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Re: [dmidecode] [PATCH] dmidecode: Use lowercase letters for UUID
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Jean Delvare |
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Re: [dmidecode] [PATCH] dmidecode: Use lowercase letters for UUID |
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Sun, 8 Apr 2018 21:06:00 +0200 |
Hi Petter,
On Sun, 08 Apr 2018 16:13:58 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Jean Delvare]
> > RFC 4122 asks for letters a-f in UUID to be lowercase. Follow this
> > recommendation.
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> Sound like a good idea to follow the UUID RFC. But this will be a user
> visible change, possibly breaking applications doing string compare of
> UUIDs.
Correct. But the same RFC mandates that reading UUIDs should be done
case-insensitively.
> How can the users be warned about this change?
This is certainly worth a visible mention in the NEWS file and the
announcement of the next version of dmidecode.
--
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support