From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KLPZE-0007eP-9x for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:38:44 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLPZD-0007dU-DD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:38:43 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLPZC-0007cQ-L7 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:38:42 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55543 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLPZC-0007c6-Ds for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:38:42 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:42387) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLPZC-0007Bv-5Q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:38:42 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KLPTI-00039h-C5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:32:36 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KLPYJ-000424-CB for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:37:47 +0200 Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:37:47 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080722213747.GC15111@thorin> References: <1216040584.9995.52.camel@dv> <200807160132.18470.okuji@enbug.org> <20080719150624.GD23778@thorin> <200807192216.23882.okuji@enbug.org> <1216673313.11291.24.camel@dv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1216673313.11291.24.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. Subject: Re: Next release? 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: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:38:43 -0000 On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 04:48:33PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 22:16 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > > I am totally against ripping off device.map. Pavel's idea is too > > idealistic, > > and that regresses the flexibility. > > Actually, it could be said that having device.map regresses flexibility. > Suppose I want to install GRUB on a flash drive that is seen > as /dev/sdb. I need to add /dev/sdb to device.map even though I'm not > going to see that flash drive again. I also need to check the options > to ensure that everything is installed on the flash drive and nothing is > installed elsewhere. > > Suppose that we don't have device.map. Then I don't need to add entries > for temporary devices. Also, I won't be able to create a cross-drive > configuration by accident, simple because it won't be allowed by > default. But we could have device.map _and_ a fallback mechanism for when there's no match (e.g. give it a "(dummy0)" drive). I even STR I implemented that in some patch. -- 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 /.)