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block: store partition_meta_info.uuid as a string
authorStephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 01:14:44 +0000 (12:14 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Thu, 1 Nov 2012 04:24:02 +0000 (15:24 +1100)
commitdf35cf757d6b194432f33c62b6e69ba2c6378440
tree1ec0cad9d87f42fb04800ec696a63c4e95b70c71
parent100cef2b879cd871ab62492ae38c3706b085822d
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