On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 10:33:01PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote: > CC-ing Vladimir... > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 03:48:28PM +0800, Michael Chang wrote: > > Hi Olaf, > > > > The patch rang a bell to me and eventually I figured out that I had > > similar patch posted. > > > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2018-04/msg00038.html > > Yeah, it looks that it fell through the cracks... > > > In short, the issue is not only in the fix itself, but also to take care > > and provide a measure to avoid incompatible grub.cfg before and after > > the patch. > > > > To recap, there were two options provided to deal with the compatibilty > > issue. > > > > 1. Introduce a shell variable to disable the change, whenever anything > > goes wrong. > > > > 2. Use readonly feature variable similar to $feature_menuentry_id that > > can be used to detect capability and apply settings accordingly, thus > > still fulfill the requirement of one grub.cfg can work for all versions > > IMHO. > > > > I am in favour of #2, but still they didn't seem to have upstream's > > consent yet. > > Michael, please prepare a patch and CC Olaf and Vladimir on it.
OK. I will do so. May I ask is it for 2.06 release material or not ? As the deadline is drawing very near I'd better to have confirmation first. Thanks, Michael > > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
