From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MSxhI-00083R-4W for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:34:48 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MSxhE-00082f-Pw for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:34:44 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MSxhA-00080w-Fj for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:34:44 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44216 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MSxhA-00080t-CS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:34:40 -0400 Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]:63741) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MSxh9-0007z0-TV for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:34:40 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO smtprelay1.cesmail.net) ([192.168.1.111]) by c60.cesmail.net with ESMTP; 20 Jul 2009 14:34:38 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.22] (static-72-92-88-10.phlapa.fios.verizon.net [72.92.88.10]) by smtprelay1.cesmail.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F2B1B34C69 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:34:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Pavel Roskin To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: References: <20090719011129.nnkkuesb4cwwwoos-cebfxv@webmail.spamcop.net> <1248033367.2519.11.camel@mj> <1248035572.2519.34.camel@mj> <1248036456.2519.48.camel@mj> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:34:34 -0400 Message-Id: <1248114874.6888.3.camel@mj> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 (2.26.3-1.fc11) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: [PATCH] AFS fixes and improvements 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: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:34:45 -0000 On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 11:36 +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > I think we should release 1.97 first. Sorry, I know that it's bad to > > sit on a pile of code, but in my opinion, the nested partition patch is > > too intrusive at this point. > > > For the release we prepared a lot of improvements for FreeBSD support. > Hopefully it will attract new FreeBSD users. Supporting nested > partitions required to abandon the syntax like (hd0,a) even if the > syntax (hd0,1,a) could be preserved. If we release 1.97 now without > nested partition patch it would be much more difficult in the future > to break the compatibility with (hd0,a) format. So I would prefer to > get nested partition patch in first before releasing 1.97 I don't think making another release would change the situation in any way. Version 1.96 supported the (hd0,a) format, and that wasn't a problem. If you want, we could just disable the (hd0,a) format now without actually changing the internals. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin