Contribution

Contribution

[Nicole]

I have written two small, simple modules to address limitations I found 
in in Grub.

1. does simple arithmetic - nothing fancy. It's invoked by using 
something like this:

insmod arithmetic
arithmetic --set fred --min 2 -- max 10 "1" "+" "2"

the operators supported are unary -,!; binary +,-,/,*,%,<,<=,<.<=,!=,==
--set works in the usual way. If the result is greater than --max, the 
--min value is returned and vice versa; this useful for cycling round a 
group of partitions in a round-robin fashion

2. diskinfo.mod introduces two commands: disklabel, diskuuid which 
return the label and uuid of the specified disk partition. This is 
useful where, having decided which partition, amongst several, to boot, 
you can fill in the appropriate value in the "root=UUID=" or 
"root=label=" Linux kernel parameter.

I looked for details on how to submit new modules, but failed to find 
anything. How do I go about this?

Nicole

Re: Contribution

[Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko]

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On Wed, Apr 12, 2017, 20:37 Nicole <nicole.king464@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have written two small, simple modules to address limitations I found
> in in Grub.
>
> 1. does simple arithmetic - nothing fancy. It's invoked by using
> something like this:
>
> insmod arithmetic
> arithmetic --set fred --min 2 -- max 10 "1" "+" "2"
>
> the operators supported are unary -,!; binary +,-,/,*,%,<,<=,<.<=,!=,==
> --set works in the usual way. If the result is greater than --max, the
> --min value is returned and vice versa; this useful for cycling round a
> group of partitions in a round-robin fashion
>
Can you have a look if we can have bash syntax $((...)) and $[...] instead?
It's more compact and nicer.

>
> 2. diskinfo.mod introduces two commands: disklabel, diskuuid which
> return the label and uuid of the specified disk partition. This is
> useful where, having decided which partition, amongst several, to boot,
> you can fill in the appropriate value in the "root=UUID=" or
> "root=label=" Linux kernel parameter.
>
Have a look at probe command. Does it cover your usecase?

>
> I looked for details on how to submit new modules, but failed to find
> anything. How do I go about this?
>
Just send patches here.

>
> Nicole
>
>
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Re: Contribution

[Nicole]

Thank you for your kind reply, Vladimir. I failed to find the probe 
command - I promise - I spent quite a few hours digging through the 
source. As for the $((...)) and $[...] - I'll look into it.

It seems that my paltry contributions are not needed, after all.

Nicole

> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:41:19 +0000
> From: "Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
> To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: Contribution
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> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017, 20:37 Nicole <nicole.king464@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have written two small, simple modules to address limitations I found
>> in in Grub.
>>
>> 1. does simple arithmetic - nothing fancy. It's invoked by using
>> something like this:
>>
>> insmod arithmetic
>> arithmetic --set fred --min 2 -- max 10 "1" "+" "2"
>>
>> the operators supported are unary -,!; binary +,-,/,*,%,<,<=,<.<=,!=,==
>> --set works in the usual way. If the result is greater than --max, the
>> --min value is returned and vice versa; this useful for cycling round a
>> group of partitions in a round-robin fashion
>>
> Can you have a look if we can have bash syntax $((...)) and $[...] instead?
> It's more compact and nicer.
>
>>
>> 2. diskinfo.mod introduces two commands: disklabel, diskuuid which
>> return the label and uuid of the specified disk partition. This is
>> useful where, having decided which partition, amongst several, to boot,
>> you can fill in the appropriate value in the "root=UUID=" or
>> "root=label=" Linux kernel parameter.
>>
> Have a look at probe command. Does it cover your usecase?
>
>>
>> I looked for details on how to submit new modules, but failed to find
>> anything. How do I go about this?
>>
> Just send patches here.
>
>>
>> Nicole
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Grub-devel mailing list
>> Grub-devel@gnu.org
>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
>>

Re: Contribution

[Xen]

Nicole schreef op 12-04-2017 18:51:
> Thank you for your kind reply, Vladimir. I failed to find the probe
> command - I promise - I spent quite a few hours digging through the
> source. As for the $((...)) and $[...] - I'll look into it.
> 
> It seems that my paltry contributions are not needed, after all.

Bash syntax will not have the min/max behaviour though unless you use a 
kind of modulo which will make it complex.

ie. normally you would do that with: x = (x + 1) mod 4, or x = (x - 1 + 
4) mod 4.

although I'm not sure a standard "round robin" function like that would 
be meaningful but who knows.

so the " arithmetic --set fred --min 2 -- max 10 "1" "+" "2" "

will come down to

fred=$(( (((fred-2) + 1) % 8) + 2 )) -- I assume. Or if you still had 
those min/max functions it'd come down to ?

arithmetic --set fred --min 2 --max 10 $(( fred + 1 ))     ?

Regards.

Re: Contribution

[Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko]

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On Thu, Apr 13, 2017, 03:04 Xen <list@xenhideout.nl> wrote:

> Nicole schreef op 12-04-2017 18:51:
> > Thank you for your kind reply, Vladimir. I failed to find the probe
> > command - I promise - I spent quite a few hours digging through the
> > source. As for the $((...)) and $[...] - I'll look into it.
> >
> > It seems that my paltry contributions are not needed, after all.
>
> Bash syntax will not have the min/max behaviour though unless you use a
> kind of modulo which will make it complex.
>
There is a $[a>b?a:b] syntax

>
> ie. normally you would do that with: x = (x + 1) mod 4, or x = (x - 1 +
> 4) mod 4.
>
> although I'm not sure a standard "round robin" function like that would
> be meaningful but who knows.
>
> so the " arithmetic --set fred --min 2 -- max 10 "1" "+" "2" "
>
> will come down to
>
> fred=$(( (((fred-2) + 1) % 8) + 2 )) -- I assume. Or if you still had
> those min/max functions it'd come down to ?
>
> arithmetic --set fred --min 2 --max 10 $(( fred + 1 ))     ?
>
> Regards.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Grub-devel mailing list
> Grub-devel@gnu.org
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
>

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Re: Contribution

[Nicole]

Vladimir,

Thanks for your attention. The modules are there if you want them, if 
not, I'll use them locally, only.

Nicole