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block: partition: msdos: provide UUIDs for partitions
authorStephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:58:24 +0000 (10:58 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:36:37 +0000 (20:36 +1000)
commitce0c3563d07582a142f3751a4d826ab5b854822d
treed188fdd9d625c5bf4dbb6007ff490fed750923d3
parentd80e6e6c2655c52da1fcc24d7cd0181de174095d
block: partition: msdos: provide UUIDs for partitions

The MSDOS/MBR partition table includes a 32-bit unique ID, often referred
to as the NT disk signature.  When combined with a partition number within
the table, this can form a unique ID similar in concept to EFI/GPT's
partition UUID.  Constructing and recording this value in struct
partition_meta_info allows MSDOS partitions to be referred to on the
kernel command-line using the following syntax:

root=PARTUUID=0002dd75-01

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/partitions/msdos.c
init/do_mounts.c