From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>,
"cross-distro@lists.linaro.org" <cross-distro@lists.linaro.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: root=PARTUUID for MBR/NT disk signatures?
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:22:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120820182254.GQ24861@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <502EC16C.4030007@wwwdotorg.org>
Hello,
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 04:10:52PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> I was considering extending the kernel command-line option
> root=PARTUUID= to also support MBR (NT disk signatures). I was thinking
> of a syntax along the lines of:
>
> root=PARTUUID=UUUUUUUU-PP[/PARTNROFF=%d]
>
> ... where UUUUUUUU is the hex representation of the NT disk signature,
> and PP is the hex representation of the partition number. Like GPT,
> /PARTNROFF could be used too if desired.
>
> Related, I was thinking of changing struct partition_meta_info's uuid
> field to be a string, so that it could simply be strcmp'd against the
> UUID value on the kernel command-line. That way, the type of the UUID is
> irrelevant.
>
> Does anyone have any objection to that?
Wouldn't that be able to break setups which work currently?
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-20 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-17 22:10 root=PARTUUID for MBR/NT disk signatures? Stephen Warren
2012-08-20 18:22 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2012-08-20 18:30 ` Stephen Warren
2012-08-21 4:47 ` Will Drewry
2012-08-21 6:38 ` Michael Tokarev
2012-08-21 18:08 ` Stephen Warren
2012-08-21 18:47 ` Will Drewry
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