From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NIUPf-0008J6-JK for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:49:35 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NIUPc-0008HZ-JV for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:49:32 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NIUPY-0008DE-2l for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:49:31 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43560 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NIUPW-0008Cs-Os for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:49:26 -0500 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:35746 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 1NIUPW-0002qw-7O for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:49:26 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NIUPS-0003Ix-NR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:49:25 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NIUPL-0001xX-Ch for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:49:15 +0100 Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 22:49:15 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GNU GRUB Message-ID: <20091209214915.GF7093@thorin> References: <20091207142806.GB6439@riva.ucam.org> <20091207172522.GA31361@riva.ucam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091207172522.GA31361@riva.ucam.org> 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: [RFC] Dynamic device.map X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:49:33 -0000 On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 05:25:22PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 02:28:06PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > As Robert said recently, we're trying to get rid of our reliance on > > device.map. Right now, it is still necessary to at least have entries in > > device.map for any disks you wish to use with GRUB, although they don't > > have to be particularly sensible; any bidirectional mapping will do (at > > least as long as the 'search' command works). > > > > I'd like to make it possible to run with no device.map at all, since > > that makes it possible to plug in new disks without having to > > reconfigure GRUB. Here's a draft patch to do this. I haven't supplied a > > ChangeLog entry yet since it isn't suitable for commit yet, as noted in > > TODO comments, but I'd welcome comments on the approach here. > > Ah, I hadn't noticed r1870, sorry. Am I right in believing that my patch > is obsolete, then? I'm not completely sure, but it seems so. Sorry about that :-( Anyhow, if you find more issues with systems that have no device.map, help is welcome fixing those of course. -- 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."