Quoting Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Personally I do not like working around an issue in specific code (in > this case specific to *-efi) in generic code. Usually, this doesn't > improve shared code. > > In this case, FAT is modified so fit the need of EFI. However, FAT is > case insensitive. On windows C:\FOO.TXT is the same as c:\foo.txt. > Although I have troubles believing people want to use a technically > flawed non-free OS that costs a lot of money. But that might be > something personally ;-) > > What matters is that it is normal that FAT is not case sensitive. > It's defined that way. This change can't and won't be made for ext2, > for example. You can have a ~/foo and ~/FOO side by side. AFAIK, > this is not possible with FAT. So I think this patch is ok :-)
Ok, I will send it separately (as it is not really ia64 specific). > Robert suggested some changes. I also noticed in the discussion that > you didn't follow common practise (like an existing grub-mkimage > implementation). Personally, as maintainer, I am against maintaining > two different approaches of the same problem. It costs us time to > maintain this and both case have separate bugs. So I rather see the > code shared, one way or the other. To safe time, it might save you > some work if you initiate a discussion about this. Ok. > If you send in a new patch that addresses Robert's concerns + > Changelog entry, I will go over it ASAP :-). Giving the same comments > as Robert does seems like a waste of time for everyone. Is this ok > for you? Ok. Tristan. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
