From: Peter Jones Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 07:20:25 +0000 (+0100) Subject: efi: Document #define FOO_PROTOCOL_GUID layout X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=54fd11fee59e7d05287bc4eebccc8ec9742f2745;p=GitHub%2Fmoto-9609%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git efi: Document #define FOO_PROTOCOL_GUID layout Add a comment documenting why EFI GUIDs are laid out like they are. Ideally I'd like to change all the ", " to "," too, but right now the format is such that checkpatch won't complain with new ones, and staring at checkpatch didn't get me anywhere towards making that work. Signed-off-by: Peter Jones Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming Cc: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466839230-12781-3-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h index f196dd0b0f2f..03009695760d 100644 --- a/include/linux/efi.h +++ b/include/linux/efi.h @@ -536,7 +536,22 @@ typedef efi_status_t efi_query_variable_store_t(u32 attributes, void efi_native_runtime_setup(void); /* - * EFI Configuration Table and GUID definitions + * EFI Configuration Table and GUID definitions + * + * These should be formatted roughly like the ones in the UEFI SPEC has + * them. It makes them easier to grep for, and they look the same when + * you're staring at them. Here's the guide: + * + * GUID: 12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012 + * Spec: + * #define EFI_SOME_PROTOCOL_GUID \ + * {0x12345678,0x1234,0x1234,\ + * {0x12,0x34,0x12,0x34,0x56,0x78,0x90,0x12}} + * Here: + * #define SOME_PROTOCOL_GUID \ + * EFI_GUID(0x12345678, 0x1234, 0x1234, \ + * 0x12, 0x34, 0x12, 0x34, 0x56, 0x78, 0x90, 0x12) + * ^ tab ^tab ^ space */ #define NULL_GUID \ EFI_GUID(0x00000000, 0x0000, 0x0000, \