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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
