Re: [RFC] change grub_print_error to use stderr for the utils

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Mittwoch, den 13.08.2008, 20:41 +0200 schrieb Marco Gerards:
> So what do you propose? :-)  You lost me midway since you change
> subjects a bit often ;(

Oh sorry for that this time I only changed [PATCH] to [RFC]
but yeah this whole topic isn't in one subject :(

But the important things I already said in the [RFC] mail, or in the
mail with the msgid I said, e.g. the link to our bug report.

I wanted a small and simple fix for this problem which could go into
Lenny.
I think more a mix of grub_dprint for real GRUB and showing an error in
grub-probe IF a device which GRUB needs to access contains an
unsupported RAID level or unsupported version of superblock.
By the way that `unsupported version' is pretty useless to check for
because each version (0.90, 1.0, 1.1 , 1.2) stores it at different
position. Maybe 0.90 and one 1.x has the same one but then still 2 which
hasn't.

With Bean's raid_6.diff (i.e. the one before he just sent now) this
`unknown RAID level 6' message is shown even more then with mine.
I think 15-20 times maybe even more on a grub-install /dev/sda1
I haven't tried it on real GRUB.

As Robert already (i think more indirectly) said we shouldn't fix things
on different codebases.
So either we just wait for Bean to commit his changes and address the
problems there or we try to address this problem just with the current
one and Bean has to adjust his patch then.

Maybe it's better to have that bug report not fixed in lenny, but
probable that's more a discussion with just Robert.

I haven't tried yet but Bean said he implemented Raid 6 now so the whole
problem isn't that important then anymore.
But this won't be for sure in lenny :(