Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] block: partitions: populate fwnode

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Hi Christoph,

thank you for reviewing.

On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 09:44:28PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 09:50:39PM +0100, Daniel Golle wrote:
> > +		/*
> > +		 * In case 'uuid' is defined in the partitions firmware node require
> > +		 * partition meta info being present and the specified uuid to match.
> > +		 */
> 
> Overly long lines, which is really annyoing for block comments.

Should I use 80 chars as limit everywhere?

> 
> > +		got_uuid = !fwnode_property_read_string(fw_part, "uuid", &uuid);
> > +		if (got_uuid && (!bdev->bd_meta_info ||
> > +				 !part_meta_match(uuid, bdev->bd_meta_info->uuid,
> > +						  PARTITION_META_INFO_UUIDLTH)))
> 
> Can we please not use the crazy part_meta stuff for anything new?
> We should never have merge it, and right now it is at least isolated
> to the boot time root dev_t partsing, and I'd really prefer to keep it
> in that corner.
> 

At least up to my understanding there isn't any other to know a
partitions UUID or volume name.

If there is another way to access this information I'd happily make
use of it, but I couldn't find any.




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