Re: [PATCH] Add option to grub-probe to accept system devices as arguments

[Fabian Greffrath]

Robert Millan schrieb:
> The last one sounds like a bug.

Yes, it's from the current *unpatched* grub-probe.

> Yes, but does the user know that? 

We could tell the user via 'grub-probe --help' that he may pass either a path or 
a block device as an argument.

> Which interface is easier to figure out
> for the user, one in which different actions require different parameters,
> or one where the same parameters act in completely different way depending
> on the file?

There are no different actions! Whether you give a valid path or a block device 
as an argument, the program behaves exactly the same. It does even behave 
exactly as before (i.e. unpatched) if given a path. Accepting devices as 
argument is simply an *added* feature.