From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: partition unique identifiers
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 17:15:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-103461577510542@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-103461080604378@msgid-missing>
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:52:43AM -0500, Gary_Lerhaupt@Dell.com wrote:
> I just discovered that via the Intel Extensible Firmware Interface
> Specification, there are allowances for partition specific unique
> identifiers. Such a thing would be quite handy within devlabel and I was
> wondering if anybody knew of any user space programs which currently capture
> these identifiers? Something like my scsi_unique_id but for partitions.
I think with the next round of partition cleanup code from Al Viro,
partitions will correctly be exposed in driverfs, so adding these kinds
of identifiers there would be quite easy. The patches are available on
his ftp site, if you want to take a look.
thanks,
greg k-h
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2002-10-14 15:52 partition unique identifiers Gary_Lerhaupt
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