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

Andrey Yurovsky yurovsky at gmail.com
Thu Nov 9 15:34:44 UTC 2017


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.


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