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From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Ward Vandewege <ward@gnu.org>, coreboot@coreboot.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] split tar & cpio
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 00:42:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090207234231.GA11319@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081108161715.GA7474@thorin>

On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 05:17:15PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I thought it would be a good idea to split tar & cpio into separate modules
> to save some space and make things easier to figure out for the users.  I
> managed to do this without duplicating code, with a bit of pre-processor
> magic.
> 
> The saved size is not much, though (~400 bytes).  But users looking for tar
> will find it more easily.  How do you feel about this? Is it worth it?

Committed.

coreboot users: if you're using tar to generate GRUB's memdisk image, with
latest svn you need to include tar.mod instead of cpio.mod.

-- 
Robert Millan

  The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
  how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
  still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."



      reply	other threads:[~2009-02-07 23:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-08 16:17 [PATCH] split tar & cpio Robert Millan
2009-02-07 23:42 ` Robert Millan [this message]

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