[U-Boot] [PATCH] gpt: add part-uuid and part-num subcommands

Lukasz Majewski l.majewski at majess.pl
Thu Nov 9 22:28:39 UTC 2017


On Thu, 9 Nov 2017 07:34:44 -0800
Andrey Yurovsky <yurovsky at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 1:55 AM, Lukasz Majewski
> <l.majewski at majess.pl> wrote:
> > Hi Andrey,
> >  
> >> Hi Otavio,
> >>
> >> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 2:47 AM, Otavio Salvador
> >> <otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:  
> >> > On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 10:43 PM, your name <yurovsky at gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:  
> >> >> From: Andrey Yurovsky <yurovsky at gmail.com>
> >> >>
> >> >> It is useful to be able to retrieve a partition UUID or number
> >> >> given the partition label, for instance some systems use the
> >> >> partition label to indicate the purpose of the partition (such
> >> >> as "rootfs0" being the 0th root file system in an A/B image
> >> >> scheme).
> >> >>
> >> >> Add "gpt part-uuid" to retrieve the partition UUID for a given
> >> >> label and "gpt part-num" to retrieve the partition number for a
> >> >> given label along with some documentation.
> >> >>
> >> >> Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <yurovsky at gmail.com>  
> >> >
> >> > Why not use the 'part' cmd? it provides it.  
> >>
> >> Sorry, I missed the part cmd, it doesn't seem to be documented in
> >> doc/ and it's unclear what <dev> means there.  
> >
> > If I may ask - Andrey, if you are now on this "topic" - would you
> > dare to add some ./doc entry for 'part' command?  
> 
> Yes, I will do that.

Thanks :-)

-- 
Best regards,

Ɓukasz Majewski
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