From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1LVwpK-0006qv-A5 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:43:10 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVwpI-0006qq-Uw for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:43:08 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVwpE-0006qV-7z for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:43:08 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49017 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LVwpE-0006qS-3h for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:43:04 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:43773) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LVwpC-0001o9-S3; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:43:02 -0500 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 1LVwjz-0001fo-7k; Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:37:39 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LVwoh-00044z-Ct; Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:42:31 +0100 Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 00:42:31 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: grub-devel@gnu.org Message-ID: <20090207234231.GA11319@thorin> References: <20081108161715.GA7474@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081108161715.GA7474@thorin> 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-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: Ward Vandewege , coreboot@coreboot.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] split tar & cpio 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: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:43:09 -0000 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."