From: Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: device syntax again
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:22:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y8enezue.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15C7179-6B54-11D9-B730-000A95A0560C@penguinppc.org> (Hollis Blanchard's message of "Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:33:48 -0600")
Hollis Blanchard <hollis@penguinppc.org> writes:
> The 'alias' suggestion is not bad, but it is one extra annoyance. "You
> can use Open Firmware device names in GRUB, unless they contain a
> comma. If they contain a comma, you must create an alias first." I see
> that as an implementation detail that users shouldn't have to think
> about.
Right. But if you allow a comma, you'll create an ugly exception and
I think the code shared between the archs get really ugly because of
this.
--
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-21 12:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-13 0:57 device syntax again Hollis Blanchard
2005-01-18 14:52 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-01-18 15:36 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-01-19 1:59 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-01-19 7:58 ` Vincent Pelletier
2005-01-19 15:30 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-01-19 10:06 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-01-21 2:33 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-01-21 12:22 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
2005-01-21 14:38 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-01-21 16:00 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-01-19 12:40 ` Marco Gerards
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