From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 17:15:28 +0000 Subject: Re: partition unique identifiers Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel