On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 01:08:05PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Robert Millan<r...@aybabtu.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 02:10:12AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> >> +enum
> >> +{
> >> + OBJ_TYPE_ELF,
> >> + OBJ_TYPE_MEMDISK,
> >> + OBJ_TYPE_CONFIG
> >> +};
> >
> > Do we actually use OBJ_TYPE_CONFIG ? I think it's there in the framework,
> > but we don't provide any means to use it. Instead, grub-mkrescue puts
> > grub.cfg
> > in the memdisk filesystem.
> >
> > Does it even make sense to support this object type? AFAICT the situation
> > has
> > been like this for a long while and nobody complained.
> >
> Actually OBJ_TYPE_CONFIG is useful and it provides a way to execute a
> file with rescue parser before other parsers are available. It's
> useful to find root in special configurations. One of my TODO items is
> to replace (UUID=...)/ syntax with using search command based on this
> feature
Ok. I'm not very fond of the (UUID=...) hack either (yeah, I guess I'm the
one to blame for it).
--
Robert Millan
The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."
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