From: Martin Wilck <Martin.Wilck@fujitsu-siemens.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] GUID filesystem+device identification ?
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 17:17:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590693005622@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590693005620@msgid-missing>
> Having it in ther kernel would be nicer and shouldn't be that difficult,
> on the other hand it'll need a consensus on wether the kernel should look
> at every partition on startup - IIRC some people where opposed to such
> soloutions in the past.
>
The kernel looks at partition type GUID of all partitions already
(in fs/partitions/efi.c), all it would need to do apart from that
look at the Unique GUID as well and create a GUID->device
table somewhere.
Cheers, Martin
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Martin Wilck <Martin.Wilck@fujitsu-siemens.com>
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2001-05-18 16:50 [Linux-ia64] GUID filesystem+device identification ? Martin Wilck
2001-05-18 16:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-05-18 17:17 ` Martin Wilck [this message]
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