From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MmRxY-0002I2-Od for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:44:08 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MmRxW-0002Hj-Ad for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:44:06 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MmRxR-0002FN-L0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:44:05 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45251 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MmRxR-0002FF-Bz for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:44:01 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:16196) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MmRxQ-0004vB-My for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:44:00 -0400 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8] helo=aybabtu.com) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MmRxO-0006Cr-W8 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:43:59 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MmRxG-0005Mj-Sv for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:43:51 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MmRxG-0002vf-C7 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:43:50 +0200 Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:43:50 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090912124350.GA11249@thorin> References: <20090902110141.GR13423@riva.ucam.org> <20090903143323.GH6656@thorin> <20090903145243.GZ13423@riva.ucam.org> <20090903150859.GA18316@thorin> <1252705386.2616.3.camel@mj> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1252705386.2616.3.camel@mj> 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 mx20.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) Subject: Re: [PATCH] save_env variable_name=value 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, 12 Sep 2009 12:44:06 -0000 On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 05:43:06PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 17:08 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > Pavel, please comment on this when you can. It seems to me that doing it > > in grub-mkconfig would require less ad-hoc code in loadenv.mod and make it > > more efficient. > > I don't see how grub-mkconfig could compensate for a missing feature in > save_env. Perhaps I'm missing the context here. Instead of issuing: save_env variable=value grub-mkconfig can issue: set variable=value save_env which doesn't need additional logic in save_env. -- 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."