Re: [PATCH 0/2] grub: two backported patch for bug 2777

[Jesse Zhang <sen.zhang@windriver.com>]

Hi Saul,

On 07/18/2012 02:41 AM, Saul Wold wrote:
>> The first patch is not exactly the same as upstream, since the upstream commit
>> contains a lot of trivial aesthetic edits.
>>
> Why can't it be the same, then we don't need to carry it?

The code base has changed, so we need to amend the patch anyway. That
would bring more confusion than to just cherry pick the bits that we
need, I think.

When grub is updated from 1.99 to 2.0, the patch can be simply dropped.

>> The second patch is taken from debian instead of directly from upstream, since
>> the code base has changed.
>>
>> Jesse Zhang (2):
>>    grub: fix grub-mkconfig_lib install dir
>>    grub: fix error stating the root device
>>
>>   .../files/grub-1.99_fix_for_automake_1.11.2.patch  |  203 +++++++++++++++-----
>>   .../grub/grub-1.99/grub-1.99-lazy_stat.patch       |   64 ++++++
>>   meta/recipes-bsp/grub/grub_1.99.bb                 |    3 +-
>>   3 files changed, 217 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)
>>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-bsp/grub/grub-1.99/grub-1.99-lazy_stat.patch
>>
> 
> This patch set may need to be rebased based on the new automake 1.12.x updated.

Just saw the updates. I will test again and send v2.

Thanks.

jesse