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Commit d33b98fc authored by Stephen Warren's avatar Stephen Warren Committed by Jens Axboe
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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: default avatarStephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 283f8fc0
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