From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MfMDt-00057n-2A for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:11:41 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfMDq-00053Y-P8 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:11:38 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfMDm-0004tW-UK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:11:38 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35000 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MfMDm-0004su-Ih for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:11:34 -0400 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:43949 helo=aybabtu.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MfMDm-0003Uv-At for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:11:34 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MfMDk-0001LF-Hf for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:11:32 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MfMDj-0006pJ-VU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:11:31 +0200 Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:11:31 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090823231131.GA26199@thorin> References: <20090822061012.27118.55715.stgit@ct.roinet.com> <20090823105025.GH4130@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: 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/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clean up struct grub_module_header 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: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:11:39 -0000 On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 01:08:05PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 02:10:12AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > >> +enum > >> +{ > >> +  OBJ_TYPE_ELF, > >> +  OBJ_TYPE_MEMDISK, > >> +  OBJ_TYPE_CONFIG > >> +}; > > > > Do we actually use OBJ_TYPE_CONFIG ?  I think it's there in the framework, > > but we don't provide any means to use it.  Instead, grub-mkrescue puts grub.cfg > > in the memdisk filesystem. > > > > Does it even make sense to support this object type?  AFAICT the situation has > > been like this for a long while and nobody complained. > > > Actually OBJ_TYPE_CONFIG is useful and it provides a way to execute a > file with rescue parser before other parsers are available. It's > useful to find root in special configurations. One of my TODO items is > to replace (UUID=...)/ syntax with using search command based on this > feature Ok. I'm not very fond of the (UUID=...) hack either (yeah, I guess I'm the one to blame for it). -- 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."