On Monday 06 February 2006 16:16, Lubomir Kundrak wrote: > Current version doesn't due to a subtle bug.
Then, please fix the subtle bug. Why can't we make incremental development? I don't like to rewrite everything every time someone finds a bug. > But anyways, when we can > get a list of disks, even with BIOS numbers in some cases, from kernel, > why don't we? Because it was not supported when GRUB Legacy was developed. > Current version doesn't try to do any guess, and open()s > every disk to ensure that it exists, which is unnecessary, slow, and > can even lead to crashes in case of faulty/strange hardware. (see the > workaround for floppy). I don't object to adding such support. But please keep it in mind that we should support old kernels as well. Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
