Re: Contribution

[Nicole <nicole.king464@gmail.com>]

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
>>
>>
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