From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1GsSL3-0003Qt-7w for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:07:37 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GsSKy-0003Lg-Tp for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:07:33 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GsSKu-0003Fp-CM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:07:29 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GsSKt-0003FV-LG for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:07:28 -0500 Received: from [32.97.182.142] (helo=e2.ny.us.ibm.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GsSKt-0007qf-E6 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:07:27 -0500 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e2.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kB7N7PLM003091 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 18:07:25 -0500 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/NCO v8.1.1) with ESMTP id kB7N7Ped169356 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 18:07:25 -0500 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id kB7N7PCd000695 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 18:07:25 -0500 Received: from [9.53.41.42] (basalt.austin.ibm.com [9.53.41.42]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kB7N7Omk000677 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 18:07:25 -0500 From: Hollis Blanchard To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <200612052123.10177.okuji@enbug.org> References: <1163545104.12931.49.camel@basalt> <200612021827.31945.okuji@enbug.org> <1165250619.30343.17.camel@basalt> <200612052123.10177.okuji@enbug.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:07:23 -0600 Message-Id: <1165532843.8900.53.camel@basalt> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: multiboot2: using tags in the multiboot header X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:07:34 -0000 On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 21:23 +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > Is it a good spec which forces one to use sample code to be error-free? Please be serious. I'm really not sure why you have such strong objections to this. We're talking about a change that is MINOR in terms of code, but will make the interface cleaner and more convenient for everybody. Please take a step back and consider. -Hollis