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From: Fabian Greffrath <greffrath@leat.rub.de>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add option to grub-probe to accept system devices as arguments
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:33:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47B3FCEC.6020107@leat.rub.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080213193534.GA28711@thorin>

Robert Millan schrieb:
> The last one sounds like a bug.

Yes, it's from the current *unpatched* grub-probe.

> Yes, but does the user know that? 

We could tell the user via 'grub-probe --help' that he may pass either a path or 
a block device as an argument.

> Which interface is easier to figure out
> for the user, one in which different actions require different parameters,
> or one where the same parameters act in completely different way depending
> on the file?

There are no different actions! Whether you give a valid path or a block device 
as an argument, the program behaves exactly the same. It does even behave 
exactly as before (i.e. unpatched) if given a path. Accepting devices as 
argument is simply an *added* feature.






  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-14  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-12 13:17 [PATCH] Add option to grub-probe to accept system devices as arguments Fabian Greffrath
2008-02-13 13:03 ` Fabian Greffrath
2008-02-13 15:42 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-13 16:51   ` Fabian Greffrath
2008-02-13 19:35     ` Robert Millan
2008-02-14  8:33       ` Fabian Greffrath [this message]
2008-02-17 13:42         ` Robert Millan
2008-02-18 12:54           ` Fabian Greffrath
2008-02-20 14:14           ` Fabian Greffrath
2008-02-22 14:32           ` [NEW PATCH] " Fabian Greffrath
2008-02-22 15:36             ` Fabian Greffrath
2008-02-24 15:22               ` Robert Millan
2008-02-25  9:49                 ` Fabian Greffrath
2008-02-25 14:20                   ` Robert Millan
2008-02-28  7:26                     ` Fabian Greffrath
2008-02-28 10:10                       ` Robert Millan
2008-02-28 10:28                         ` Fabian Greffrath
2008-02-28 10:41                           ` Robert Millan
2008-02-28 11:46                             ` Fabian Greffrath
2008-02-28 17:07                               ` Robert Millan
2008-02-29  8:33                                 ` Fabian Greffrath
2008-03-03 21:06                                   ` Robert Millan
2008-03-04  7:57                                     ` Fabian Greffrath
2008-03-05 12:27                                     ` [NEW PATCH] os-prober output parser Fabian Greffrath
2008-03-13  7:56                                       ` Fabian Greffrath
2008-03-19 14:38                                       ` Robert Millan
2008-03-19 15:18                                         ` Fabian Greffrath
2008-03-19 16:10                                           ` Robert Millan
2008-03-20 10:02                                             ` Fabian Greffrath
2008-03-20 10:36                                               ` Robert Millan
2008-03-25  7:27                                                 ` Fabian Greffrath
2008-04-07  8:39                                                   ` Fabian Greffrath
2008-04-09  8:32                                                     ` Fabian Greffrath
2008-04-09 10:11                                                       ` Robert Millan
2008-04-09 12:41                                                         ` Fabian Greffrath
2008-04-13 10:52                                                     ` Robert Millan
2008-04-14 11:11                                                       ` Fabian Greffrath
2008-02-29 13:46                                 ` [NEW PATCH] Add option to grub-probe to accept system devices as arguments Fabian Greffrath
2008-03-03 20:58                                   ` Robert Millan
2008-02-24 15:23             ` Robert Millan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-02-12  9:49 [PATCH] " Fabian Greffrath
2008-02-12 11:28 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-11 15:48 Fabian Greffrath
2008-02-11 16:12 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-11  8:53 Fabian Greffrath
2008-02-11 14:39 ` Robert Millan

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