Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] genhd, efi: add efi partition metadata to hd_structs

[Kay Sievers]

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 16:44, Will Drewry <wad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> But the only thing we are really interested in is the UUID, which,
>> like Tejun already suggested, we should probably store
>> format-independent, and have it always accessible. That way, we would
>> not need any type-specific parser, we just handle the normal DCE
>> format.
>
> I'll bump it out and make it the efi code generic-ify its uuid. ÂOut
> of curiousity, were you and Tejun thinking of keeping it as a 36 byte
> string or as the 16 byte packed value. ÂWhile less space efficient,
> I'd prefer the u8[36] as it avoids dealing with versioning when
> parsing the user-supplied string. ÂInstead, each partition type can
> properly unparse its uuids according to what they expect.

I think we should use the packed version, which is case-insensitive,
or at least normalize it to a defined case.

Kay
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