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block: partition: msdos: provide UUIDs for partitions
authorStephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:19:00 +0000 (10:19 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 06:06:40 +0000 (16:06 +1000)
commit6c6d0ee2720e2a7386758a91d2e77d396995fe36
treeea16af34dc3691e43c0a1ac2a5c2faab1441b759
parent5cdcf8fe752a6b24f72172b4de9f00b525155b67
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