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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>
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 06:06:39 +0000 (16:06 +1000)
commit7ac807818c144165cf2a0c4002893358f17df723
tree288c0d372ff7ee8c5410b5c21c58651470f34f2c
parent059592d60c17f1b95e1c153083cc4ceaeee932de
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