From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
Cc: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>,
Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>,
Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>,
Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
The development of BTRFS <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: grub-0.97: btrfs multidevice support [PATCH]
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:35:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090925233530.GA4133@mail.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090925150136.GQ13423@riva.ucam.org>
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:01:36PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> This isn't naysaying those people who post patches for GRUB Legacy - but
> given the reality that nobody is maintaining GRUB Legacy upstream right
> now, which is better, to have your patch ignored or to receive a note
> saying that it's against an unmaintained target? I'd go for not being
> ignored any day.
Thankfully grub2 is starting to see distro work. We did ocfs2
grub2 support years ago and ran into this problem. Do the work against
grub and no one will take the patch. Do the work against grub2 and
upstream will take the patch, but zero users see it because grub2 was
unusable by anyone.
Here's the original ocfs2 work from Mark Fasheh:
http://osdir.com/ml/boot-loaders.grub.devel/2005-11/msg00025.html It's
sat idle for four years because of the grub2 vs distros confusion.
Hopefully we can get it upstream again!
Joel
--
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
- Oscar Wilde
Joel Becker
Principal Software Developer
Oracle
E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com
Phone: (650) 506-8127
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-25 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-24 19:01 grub-0.97: btrfs multidevice support [PATCH] Edward Shishkin
2009-09-24 20:21 ` Robert Millan
2009-09-24 22:38 ` Bron Gondwana
2009-09-25 14:09 ` Robert Millan
2009-09-25 14:16 ` Ric Wheeler
2009-09-25 15:22 ` Robert Millan
2009-09-25 15:01 ` Colin Watson
2009-09-25 23:35 ` Joel Becker [this message]
2009-09-25 23:47 ` Bron Gondwana
2009-09-27 3:29 ` Peng Tao
2009-09-27 10:18 ` Robert Millan
2009-09-28 1:53 ` Peng Tao
2009-09-28 7:47 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-09-28 15:36 ` Chris Mason
2009-10-02 20:48 ` Robert Millan
2009-09-27 10:38 ` Robert Millan
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20090925233530.GA4133@mail.oracle.com \
--to=joel.becker@oracle.com \
--cc=brong@fastmail.fm \
--cc=chris.mason@oracle.com \
--cc=cjwatson@ubuntu.com \
--cc=grub-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=rwheeler@redhat.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox