On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 01:47:06PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-12-10 at 13:41 +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 12:54:05PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > #690538 relates to providing an option to remove the submenus. Please
> > > can the changelog explain why that is relevant to us.
> > > 
> > 
> > Because somebody else thought not making submenu optional is a bug. So
> > do I.
> 
> I meant: why is this important to osstest? does using submenus break
> something? if so then what? if not then there is no reason to be
> diverging from the baseline.
>  

Submenu breaks OSSTest's grub menu parser, causing test step to fail.

> > > Did you fix it by removing/reverting the submenu support altogether, as
> > > opposed to e.g. importing the patch from Eric Fischer in the bug report?
> > > I don't see stuff which I'd expect if you had applied the patch. I think
> > > it would be worth spelling out in a bit more detail what the changes
> > > you've made to the baseline for each bug were.
> > > 
> > 
> > I fixed this by supplying a 20_linux_xen extracted from wheezy with
> > submenu generation removed (2 lines). This is how we dealt with other
> > grub bugs.
> 
> I think precisely what you've changed from the baseline should be
> documented somewhere.
> 

OK.

Wei.

> Ian.

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