Re: Ideas for the future

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 05.03.2012 16:43, Andreas Vogel wrote:
> Am 05.03.2012 13:54, schrieb Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko:
> > > option with an optional argument. By this we would have had what you
> > > preference and my way too. Regarding optional arguments the option
> > > handling in GRUB is actually broken by design, so this is,
> > > unfortunately, not an option.
> > When i implemented my patches, i wanted to use both ways: a command line
> > Again it's unfortunate that noone noticed it when it was committed and
> > now we're stuck with it.
> You should think about that again. GRUB is broken regarding that and it
> should be fixed anyway. Right now it seems that there is only one
> command which uses GRUB_ARG_OPTION_OPTIONAL so maybe it's one of the
> last chances to have a cheap fix.
Learn to use rgrep before making unsupported, easy to check claims:
./grub-core/commands/search_wrap.c:    {"set",        's', 
GRUB_ARG_OPTION_OPTIONAL,
./grub-core/loader/i386/bsd.c:    {"serial", 'h', GRUB_ARG_OPTION_OPTIONAL,
./grub-core/loader/i386/bsd.c:    {"serial", 'h', GRUB_ARG_OPTION_OPTIONAL,
>


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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko