From f43c2fd69749bb9a44f2a3ab61b6735938432b52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Brown Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 13:31:15 +0000 Subject: [settings] Support formatting UUIDs as little-endian GUIDs The RFC4122 specification defines UUIDs as being in network byte order, but an unfortunately significant amount of (mostly Microsoft) software treats them as having the first three fields in little-endian byte order. In an ideal world, any server-side software that compares UUIDs for equality would perform an endian-insensitive comparison (analogous to comparing strings for equality using a case-insensitive comparison), and would therefore not care about byte order differences. Define a setting type name ":guid" to allow a UUID setting to be formatted in little-endian order, to simplify interoperability with server-side software that expects such a formatting. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown --- src/include/ipxe/settings.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'src/include') diff --git a/src/include/ipxe/settings.h b/src/include/ipxe/settings.h index f463e6674..e042b9758 100644 --- a/src/include/ipxe/settings.h +++ b/src/include/ipxe/settings.h @@ -426,6 +426,7 @@ extern const struct setting_type setting_type_hexhyp __setting_type; extern const struct setting_type setting_type_hexraw __setting_type; extern const struct setting_type setting_type_base64 __setting_type; extern const struct setting_type setting_type_uuid __setting_type; +extern const struct setting_type setting_type_guid __setting_type; extern const struct setting_type setting_type_busdevfn __setting_type; extern const struct setting_type setting_type_dnssl __setting_type; -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522