On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Andrey Yurovsky <yurov...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 2:47 AM Otavio Salvador > <otavio.salva...@ossystems.com.br> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 10:43 PM, your name <yurov...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > From: Andrey Yurovsky <yurov...@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 <yurov...@gmail.com> >> >> Why not use the 'part' cmd? it provides it. > > > The use case is, given a label, find the UUID and/or the partition number. I > see that 'part' can give me the UUID if I knew the partition number, it can > print the whole table (but I don't think I can use that output cleanly), and > it can list the partition numbers. I don't think I can solve my problem with > 'part' as-is unless I have missed something. > > If that's the case would it be alright to add these subcommands to 'part'? > Thank you again,
It looks to be the best approach for me. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot