From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1FnL9K-0003sd-O0 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:54:06 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FnL9H-0003oW-R0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:54:03 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FnL9G-0003ma-3T for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:54:03 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FnL9F-0003mJ-Vc for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:54:02 -0400 Received: from [212.85.152.101] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FnLGS-00032r-Vf for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jun 2006 16:01:29 -0400 Received: from kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com (kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com [212.85.152.101]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A0B83C000395 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 23:30:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [??1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6240B3C000394 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 23:30:52 +0200 (CEST) From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 21:53:59 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <200606052104.02333.okuji@enbug.org> <1149534845.19111.72.camel@basalt.austin.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1149534845.19111.72.camel@basalt.austin.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606052153.59285.okuji@enbug.org> X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.393600, version=0.17.2 Subject: Re: 1-based partition numbering 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, 05 Jun 2006 19:54:04 -0000 On Monday 05 June 2006 21:14, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 21:04 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > So I have changed the partition numbering to 1-based. The strategy is > > that we use 1-based only for the string representation of a device, while > > keeping 0-based internally. I think this is more intuitive for hacking. I > > assume that I have modified all relevant parts, but I might have missed > > some parts. If you find anything not working well, let me know. > > If I understand correctly, that means a user will specify "(hd,1)" to > mean "the first partition on device 'hd'", where they used to specify > "(hd,0)"? Exactly. > I'm very happy to see that; I agree with the decision. However, I was a > bit surprised as well. I haven't been following grub-devel that closely > recently, but I didn't see any proposal about it. Did I miss it? Sorry, this has not been discussed here at all. Do you remember that we talked about this on the irc? You mentioned that it would be better to use 1-based, and Marco didn't have any objection, and I didn't, either. Okuji