Re: [PATCH] Use extcmd to handle bsd arguments.

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 02:22:24PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> Hello. Currently bsd loaders inspects argv[1] for boot options but the
> treat argv[1] as if it always was prefixed by dash ('-') and
> completely ignores options in argv[n], n>1. This leads to unexpected
> results like
> freebsd /kernel verbose
> is parsed like verbose ('v'), dfltroot ('r') and single ('s')
> freebsd /kernel -v -s
> is parsed only like verbose and not verbose and single.
> Additionally help shows no information about these options. This patch
> delegates option parsing to lib/arg.c and so achieves good option
> passing, GNU-style options support and provides help. Unfortunately
> booting with some options has no noticeable effect so I couldn't
> document what they do

Please go ahead (I assume you've tested it on the 3 *BSD kernels).

Btw, you capitalized two of the "Load kernel of ..." messages but not the
NetBSD one:

> +  cmd_freebsd = grub_register_extcmd ("freebsd", grub_cmd_freebsd,
> +                                   GRUB_COMMAND_FLAG_BOTH,
> +                                   "freebsd FILE", "Load kernel of FreeBSD.",
> +                                   freebsd_opts);
> +  cmd_openbsd = grub_register_extcmd ("openbsd", grub_cmd_openbsd,
> +                                   GRUB_COMMAND_FLAG_BOTH,
> +                                   "openbsd FILE", "Load kernel of OpenBSD.",
> +                                   openbsd_opts);
> +  cmd_netbsd = grub_register_extcmd ("netbsd", grub_cmd_netbsd,
> +                                  GRUB_COMMAND_FLAG_BOTH,
> +                                  "netbsd FILE", "load kernel of NetBSD",
> +                                  netbsd_opts);

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