From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] save_env variable_name=value
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 16:33:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090903143323.GH6656@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090902110141.GR13423@riva.ucam.org>
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 12:01:42PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> This implements saving an environment variable with a given value
> without having to set that variable first, as suggested by Pavel here:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-06/msg00190.html
>
> 2009-09-02 Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
>
> * commands/loadenv.c (grub_cmd_save_env): Allow an optional
> explicit value (`save_env variable_name=value').
> (GRUB_MOD_INIT (loadenv)): Update save_env summary.
Maybe it is better to handle the extra logic at grub-mkconfig level
(for smaller/faster loadenv code). Is this feasible?
In any case, this would have to be post-1.97.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-03 14:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-02 11:01 [PATCH] save_env variable_name=value Colin Watson
2009-09-03 14:33 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2009-09-03 14:52 ` Colin Watson
2009-09-03 15:08 ` Robert Millan
2009-09-11 21:43 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-09-12 8:16 ` Colin Watson
2009-09-12 12:43 ` Robert Millan
2009-09-12 14:54 ` richardvoigt
2009-09-13 5:14 ` Pavel Roskin
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