From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JUhFG-0002Ie-07 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:48:14 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUhFE-0002Ga-PL for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:48:12 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUhFD-0002Dw-88 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:48:12 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUhFD-0002Dn-02 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:48:11 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JUhFC-0004cX-L3 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:48:10 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JUhF9-0007LM-RN; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:48:09 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JUhDI-0008S2-31; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:46:12 +0100 Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:46:12 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080228114612.GA12940@thorin> References: <511f47f50802272300l143d3d4cw1c33acb4bd4710f6@mail.gmail.com> <20080228021018.ufh0qbr20wc8coww@webmail.spamcop.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20080228021018.ufh0qbr20wc8coww@webmail.spamcop.net> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: shirish Subject: Re: Latest kernel shown at last 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, 28 Feb 2008 11:48:13 -0000 On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 02:10:18AM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > I was thinking of fixing it, but I'm not sure it can even be done in > shell script. We may need to write a helper in C just for that, or > resort to bashisms. Btw, the old update-grub that Debian put in GRUB Legacy package has code to do this in shell (without bashisms I think). It's a 61-line function. Getting the paperwork for this is out of the question, but I could describe in plain English what are the heuristics that it applies if someone else is willing to implement them. Note that the heuristics in that script are highly valuable, since they're known to produce good results over a very long period of time. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)