Robert Millan wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 01:31:54PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>
>> Robert Millan wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:56:07AM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Try attached WIP patch
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Excellent. This was quite necessary. I have to admit my (UUID=) kludge was
>>> a really poor solution (although in that time, the alternatives weren't
>>> so straightforwarded).
>>>
>>> I'm inclined to allow this for inclusion in 1.97, since it fixes a problem
>>> that could be seen as a bug (the overhead can be huge, specially in slow
>>> setups).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> This patch isn't ready yet. grub-install has to be fixed for
>> grub-install for sparc64 too but I have no possibility to test it on
>> sparc64. I haven't tested it on multi-drive config on x86 yet.
>>
>
> This code duplication is problematic. Would be nice to have those two
> files unified in long term :-/
>
>
I'm not sure about this. This code deals with sparc-specific stuff and
if it's unified with i386-pc it may tend to be broken. But I can't make
any definite statement since I'm not familiar with sparc64. CC'ing David
Miller.
>>>> - prefix_drive="(UUID=${uuid})"
>>>> - modules="$modules fs_uuid"
>>>> + config="search_fs_uuid ${uuid} root"
>>>> + modules="$modules search_fs_uuid"
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Note we don't need to explicitly include "root" there. This would save 5
>>> bytes, and make the behaviour a bit more consistent (since root is
>>> implicit afterwards).
>>>
>>>
>> If "root" is omitted the found filename is printed on console
>>
>
> I guess that's because -s wasn't used?
>
>
Yes. Using options would drag extcmd.mod without real need (for normal
mode "search" with old syntax is still available)
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