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Re: [PATCH] arbitrary drive names in device.map


From: Pavel Roskin
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arbitrary drive names in device.map
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 19:12:52 -0400

On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 23:36 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This patch fixed the device.map handlers to accept any device name for grub
> drives, rather than just BIOS-style "hd[0-9]" and "fd[0-9]".  It makes
> update-grub usable on OFW, Coreboot, etc.
> 
> Any comments?

That's a very welcome change!

By the way, biosdisk.c becomes a misnomer.  If I understand correctly,
biosdisk.c is not going to be emulating anything BIOS specific with your
patch.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin




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