Add a new option to the blkid program, -l, which will more efficiently search

for a single device.

Add a new function to the blkid library, blkid_probe_all_new().

Optimize blkid_find_dev_with_tag() so that extraneous device validation are
skipped.  (Makes a difference for system with a large number of disks).

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/misc/ChangeLog b/misc/ChangeLog
index b0b87f6d..67dec48f 100644
--- a/misc/ChangeLog
+++ b/misc/ChangeLog
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
 		blkid_dev_has_tag().  Remove compare_search_type() since
 		it has been obseleted by blkid_dev_has_tag().
 
+	* blkid.c (main): Add a new flag, -l, which will use a more
+		efficient method to find the device that matches a
+		particular tag specifier.
+
 2005-05-06  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@mit.edu>
 
 	* blkid.c (main): Use an int instead of an char to store the