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

[Marco Gerards]

Felix Zielcke <address@hidden> writes:

> 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 :(

Well, ok.  So thus we are indeed fixing a problem in Lenny inside
GRUB?  On IRC someone said this was *not* the case.  I am very
confused...

--
Marco