From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NOWei-0006zr-GX for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:26:04 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NOWef-0006w3-UU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:26:02 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NOWea-0006lJ-TR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:26:01 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39176 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NOWea-0006kt-Lj for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:25:56 -0500 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:48710 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 1NOWea-0005Hn-Ci for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:25:56 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NOWeW-0005YB-DV for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:25:52 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NOWeV-0005OY-NL for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:25:51 +0100 Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:25:51 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GNU GRUB Message-ID: <20091226132551.GA20730@thorin> References: <20091207142806.GB6439@riva.ucam.org> <20091207172522.GA31361@riva.ucam.org> <20091209214915.GF7093@thorin> <20091209230443.GH6439@riva.ucam.org> <20091210005527.GB15546@thorin> <20091210081252.GI6439@riva.ucam.org> <20091224211827.GH12122@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091224211827.GH12122@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/1.5.18 (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: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:26:02 -0000 On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:18:27PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > No, I don't think we will. grub-probe is perfectly capable of mapping > > /dev/sda1 to (hd0,1) even without device.map; > > I wasn't very fond of this because it's BIOS-specific. But I guess we can > live with it. On second thought, I'm really not convinced we need this kind of logic. It seems a lot like a workaround. Just leave it with (/dev/foo). If you remove device.map generation from grub-install, you can remove the backward compatibility hack while at it. Then we rely only on UUIDs. In the future, we can rely on the initial value of $root as well, but this would require some rework (disk / partition split). -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi