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block: store partition_meta_info.uuid as a string
authorStephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:57:10 +0000 (10:57 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fri, 21 Sep 2012 05:58:35 +0000 (15:58 +1000)
commit55fa4c9eba8f80a6dbaf170c6559bcd18eb1c5f5
treedadab66eeb0b7ac5ec438f2201c3b7b20fd6cb3b
parentf59a71dea747a1b78819d9206ac83251c078e20b
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