From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KLQ4A-0005fY-8W for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:10:42 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLQ48-0005fP-LM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:10:40 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLQ47-0005fB-5n for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:10:40 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44646 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLQ46-0005f8-W2 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:10:39 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:60907) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLQ46-0003h7-RF for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:10:39 -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 1KLPyC-0003Bv-QO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:04:33 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KLQ3C-0004HQ-1t for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:09:42 +0200 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:09:42 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080722220942.GC15825@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> <20080722213747.GC15111@thorin> <1216764101.5601.15.camel@dv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1216764101.5601.15.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 22:10:40 -0000 On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 06:01:41PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 23:37 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > 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. > > The problem was that the reliable information was called "dummy" and > used as fallback, whereas the unreliable information was used by > default. None of it was intended to be reliable for anything. It was simply a way of making GRUB non-util code handle system devices that haven't been registered in device.map, like a temporary USB disk. -- 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 /.)