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block: store partition_meta_info.uuid as a string
authorStephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 01:14:44 +0000 (12:14 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 29 Oct 2012 03:17:18 +0000 (14:17 +1100)
commit0ec23f6fe2078c4d023879f99ca3243b370936e6
tree22225f90fd49fc2d70cd6d6993162dd396c69446
parent77b1ee4d2bd69e62b6031b367bd2fc659f6f5dde
block: store partition_meta_info.uuid as a string

This will allow other types of UUID to be stored here, aside from true
UUIDs.  This also simplifies code that uses this field, since it's usually
constructed from a, used as a, or compared to other, strings.

Note: A simplistic approach here would be to set uuid_str[36]=0 whenever a
/PARTNROFF option was found to be present.  However, this modifies the
input string, and causes subsequent calls to devt_from_partuuid() not to
see the /PARTNROFF option, which causes different results.  In order to
avoid misleading future maintainers, this parameter is marked const.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
block/genhd.c
block/partitions/efi.c
include/linux/genhd.h
init/do_mounts.c