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block: partition: msdos: provide UUIDs for partitions
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)
commit56016c313a003063b3b79443345f98c1ed0f2e8c
tree54456dba7302987ba032755e1e36bc6a39b3d984
parentac58c8b220e8cb0ebe186960f1f70ebfbe44b0de
block: partition: msdos: provide UUIDs for partitions

The MSDOS/MBR partition table includes a 32-bit unique ID, often referred
to as the NT disk signature.  When combined with a partition number within
the table, this can form a unique ID similar in concept to EFI/GPT's
partition UUID.  Constructing and recording this value in struct
partition_meta_info allows MSDOS partitions to be referred to on the
kernel command-line using the following syntax:

root=PARTUUID=0002dd75-01

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/partitions/msdos.c
init/do_mounts.c