]> git.karo-electronics.de Git - karo-tx-linux.git/commit
block: store partition_meta_info.uuid as a string
authorStephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:58:23 +0000 (10:58 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:36:37 +0000 (20:36 +1000)
commit7b8a0d6310d9a05926b7109b7e4469e99d9583d8
treed34e054fefc20b858392fb9ee1e03ca98005ca69
parent9c5df66d8c517ccead59831de50c65ffd8011eb8
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