From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1K22Bw-0006Wr-Hy for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 06:50:36 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K22Bv-0006Wi-BZ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 06:50:35 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K22Bt-0006WF-OI for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 06:50:34 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55329 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K22Bt-0006W5-El for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 06:50:33 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:47739) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K22Bs-0005Yx-FP for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 06:50:33 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K22BP-00032M-6V; Fri, 30 May 2008 12:50:03 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K22Bf-0005fi-Di; Fri, 30 May 2008 12:50:19 +0200 Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 12:50:19 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080530105019.GB21035@thorin> References: <20080528213614.GA18932@thorin> <1212102772.4265.53.camel@dv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1212102772.4265.53.camel@dv> 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: Jordi Mallach Subject: Re: [PATCH] arbitrary drive names in device.map 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: Fri, 30 May 2008 10:50:35 -0000 On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 07:12:52PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 23:36 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This patch fixed the device.map handlers to accept any device name for grub > > drives, rather than just BIOS-style "hd[0-9]" and "fd[0-9]". It makes > > update-grub usable on OFW, Coreboot, etc. > > > > Any comments? > > That's a very welcome change! Ok. Committed. > By the way, biosdisk.c becomes a misnomer. If I understand correctly, > biosdisk.c is not going to be emulating anything BIOS specific with your > patch. How about renaming to util/disk.c ? -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)