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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, 3 Oct 2012 06:46:40 +0000 (16:46 +1000)
commit9b7ad3ed12f35817528641003f0ae2bbbfa032d5
tree5ff0d07d1b853ceaf690981540dcf2ae24274289
parent0d5ecce1b24cb7fd437cebb43570d782b2f1f33c
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