Re: Rewrite of grub-mkdevicemap

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

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