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block: store partition_meta_info.uuid as a string
authorStephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:18:59 +0000 (10:18 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 10 Oct 2012 04:00:21 +0000 (15:00 +1100)
commit76bc058fb44ff1abe185d1efcd3440f785fdcb63
tree0e6a7f16d2fc0bb7a7a286248cdf8a6937603d12
parent74ef740a0906210c5b2d0f3198d9bde6c2bfa8bc
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