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On Thu, Apr 23, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:

> I know. as I said, IIRC it was added to support specific requirement,
> not as part of generic framework. Of course, now that it is there
> nobody knows who depends on it.

What is wrong with it anyway? Both grub and the optional commands passed
to it are one unit.

Looks like your concern is that the defaults used during mkimage time
can be changed at runtime. Thats common practice I think.

Olaf