From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Partition modules
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:32:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200411181032.10290.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FDD576B7-3914-11D9-99D3-000A95A0560C@penguinppc.org>
On Thursday 18 November 2004 04:50, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> I do have an objection here: members like "bsd_type" don't belong in
> a generic struct, but rather in grub_partition_bsd_type. I believe
> grub_partition should be the abstraction, i.e. what defines a
> partition in the general sense. start, len, and index are obviously
> good; offset is compensating for a DOS issue, though at least it has
> (irrelevant) meaning for an Apple map... but ext_offset and these
> dos_ and bsd_ things don't belong here IMHO.
I agree with you in theory... but I guess it is a bit difficult to make
BSD disklabel independent, because it is sometimes used alone and it is
sometimes nested in other partition types. I hope Marco will find out a
good solution here.
Okuji
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-18 9:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-17 19:25 Partition modules Marco Gerards
2004-11-18 3:50 ` Hollis Blanchard
2004-11-18 5:09 ` Hollis Blanchard
2004-11-18 8:13 ` Marco Gerards
2004-11-18 8:16 ` Marco Gerards
2004-11-18 9:32 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
2004-11-18 10:46 ` Marco Gerards
2004-11-18 11:20 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-11-18 13:58 ` Marco Gerards
2004-11-18 9:28 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-11-18 10:40 ` Marco Gerards
2004-11-23 1:29 ` Timothy Baldwin
2004-11-23 15:12 ` Marco Gerards
2004-11-24 19:15 ` Marco Gerards
2004-11-30 17:55 ` Marco Gerards
2004-12-03 17:18 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-12-04 15:39 ` Marco Gerards
2004-12-04 17:03 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
[not found] ` <200412041230.17136.mjflick@gnu.org>
2004-12-04 18:41 ` Marco Gerards
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