Re: [PATCH] Clean up struct grub_module_header

[Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Robert Millan<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 02:10:12AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>> +enum
>> +{
>> +  OBJ_TYPE_ELF,
>> +  OBJ_TYPE_MEMDISK,
>> +  OBJ_TYPE_CONFIG
>> +};
>
> Do we actually use OBJ_TYPE_CONFIG ?  I think it's there in the framework,
> but we don't provide any means to use it.  Instead, grub-mkrescue puts 
> grub.cfg
> in the memdisk filesystem.
>
> Does it even make sense to support this object type?  AFAICT the situation has
> been like this for a long while and nobody complained.
>
Actually OBJ_TYPE_CONFIG is useful and it provides a way to execute a
file with rescue parser before other parsers are available. It's
useful to find root in special configurations. One of my TODO items is
to replace (UUID=...)/ syntax with using search command based on this
feature
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>
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