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Almost-duplicate paragraph #3

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langston-barrett opened this issue Mar 16, 2023 · 1 comment
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Almost-duplicate paragraph #3

langston-barrett opened this issue Mar 16, 2023 · 1 comment

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@langston-barrett
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Put another way, the GUID forms a contract: If the UEFI Driver finds a protocol
with a particular GUID, it may assume that the contents of the protocol are as
specified for that protocol. If the contents of the protocol are different, the
driver that published the protocol is assumed to be in error.
In some ways, GUIDs are can be viewed as contracts. If a UEFI Driver looks up a
protocol with a certain GUID, the structure under the GUID is well defined. If
the GUID is duplicated, this 1:1 mapping breaks. If a GUID is copied and
applied to a new protocol, the users of the old protocol call the new protocol
expecting the old interfaces or vice versa. Either way, the results are never
good.

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Also, the Caution note just below this is malformed.

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