From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1QjXwj-00010K-79 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:40:21 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49816) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QjXwc-0000vy-K1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:40:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QjXwX-0004lk-B4 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:40:14 -0400 Received: from mail-wy0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169]:49948) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QjXwW-0004lE-VQ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:40:09 -0400 Received: by wyg36 with SMTP id 36so264716wyg.0 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:40:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=Fz6BsBGRpZ3F5rA+a6BV2vIEbxBT05GcXIJuiyw2YP0=; b=u3GKPOPpT3hrPcWkxGh8j+iikB5LQq8JPiUm1nlX7U6bfHqkNFgwVy4oS7srVOTytx VgW37zq7DDPThljuwCXn0AiaNwAD9yswVC51L21t21EfG/zMDT8f/8HKL0VDPlttUQqX 1EVsbM2nJUGTAwNh3dvwOWT3lO992OEd8d0uU= Received: by 10.227.135.9 with SMTP id l9mr7666960wbt.34.1311172807869; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:40:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian.x201.phnet (gprs19.swisscom-mobile.ch [193.247.250.19]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o19sm246238wbh.43.2011.07.20.07.40.05 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:40:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E26E8C4.20202@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:40:04 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110626 Iceowl/1.0b2 Icedove/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: --no-floppy option for grub-mkconfig References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig7361B8CB4A11CCE5B374F4AC" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 74.125.82.169 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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, 20 Jul 2011 14:40:19 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig7361B8CB4A11CCE5B374F4AC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 18.07.2011 20:27, KESHAV P.R. wrote: > Hi, > Please provide a --no-floppy option for grub-mkconfig since > grub.cfg file generation takes a long time without it in some systems > (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/42565). This should be fixed correctly in latest bazaar as long as /proc and /dev are mounted and you don't use a paleontological kernel. > On a > side note I think its better to make --no-floppy behaviour default > with a --allow-floppy option required for probing floppy disks, > instead of the other way round. Have you considered the implications of this suggestion? Any such change in defaults can make millions of computers unbootable and must be considiered with care, not just "I think it might be slightly better". Moreover if you think that some problem can be solved by modifying the defaults, then your solutions is likely a workaround for real issue --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enig7361B8CB4A11CCE5B374F4AC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREKAAYFAk4m6MQACgkQNak7dOguQglfXAD/W+aLJSJZPjU05xnp1GaqZEIy yr4HcslphM4+tPwEN58A/iSywiF8fjVvoVUzhYiFMQh650fzGAsZD8pccws/JWSK =CX6a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig7361B8CB4A11CCE5B374F4AC--