Felix Zielcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Am Mittwoch, den 13.08.2008, 11:38 +0200 schrieb Marco Gerards:
>> > 2008-08-12  Felix Zielcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >
>> >         * kern/err.c [GRUB_UTIL]: Include <stdio.h>.
>> >           (grub_print_error) [GRUB_UTIL]: Use fprintf (stderr, ...) 
>> > instead of 
>> >           grub_printf.
>> 
>> If there is another way to do this, I would prefer this.
>
> Now with remaking that grub_print_error () patch I began to doubt if
> that `GRUB fears raid 6 so much that it goes to rescue mode if it just
> sees one which it doestn't need to access at all' should be changed for
> lenny.
> Robert confirmed my doubts on IRC i.e. he said, it's better to discuss
> the whole thing first.
>
> This is my first mail about this:
> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> just using grub_dprintf isn't that great, I'd like to have at least
> `grub-probe -vv' show the unknown RAID level message.
>
> The other patch, which changes grub_print_error () to use stderr and let
> the raid.mod itself print the error instead of giving it to the upper
> layer isn't that great either.
>
> Real GRUB shows for every RAID 6 disk once `unknown RAID level 6' e.g.
> in my VMware testcase with 4 disks 4 times.
>
> grub-install /dev/sda with raid 6 not even assembled i.e.
> empty /proc/mdstat shows it 6 times, I think once for each time
> grub-probe gets called.
>
> By the way my last patch isn't even compiling because I forgot to make
> some other stuff from kern/err.c avaible to it i.e.
> grub_error_stack_assert is declared as static  but used in
> grub_print_error ()
> and there's another problem grub-mkimage includes util/misc.c but not
> kern/err.c so the other functions and variables needed by it aren't
> avaible.
>
> So please comment this.

So what do you propose? :-)  You lost me midway since you change
subjects a bit often ;(

--
Marco



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