linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] genhd, efi: add efi partition metadata to hd

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Date:	Wed, 4 Aug 2010 17:28:47 +0200
From:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
To:	Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Jan Blunck <jblunck@...e.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] genhd, efi: add efi partition metadata to 
	hd_structs

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 16:44, Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org> 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.  Out
> of curiousity, were you and Tejun thinking of keeping it as a 36 byte
> string or as the 16 byte packed value.  While less space efficient,
> I'd prefer the u8[36] as it avoids dealing with versioning when
> parsing the user-supplied string.  Instead, 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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