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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>
Tue, 18 Sep 2012 06:04:11 +0000 (16:04 +1000)
commit924235b78572165506fbb639305a24c276ff43c6
tree290267951228bb0e25e8bf75811d989f2e233f57
parentcfa6ca755600e29d75c56fbfd91f1be7eaf00cf3
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