On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 03:58:46PM +0100, phcoder wrote: > Hello. I was looking into nested partitions issue and propose to unify > grub_partition and grub_disk. In this case when a code calls > grub_disk_read with a grub_disk_t which represents a partition it will > correct the offset and call grub_disk_read with underlying partition or > disk. In this way not only nested partitions become natural but also > conceptually similar fields of total_sectors and len become unified. As > it's an important design change I send this e-mail before coding it
Makes sense to me. But it'd be interesting to hear from the person who designed it this way. Perhaps there's a non-obvious reason. Who's that? Maybe Marco or Okuji? Also an interesting question is how would "has_partitions" field be handled in this scheme. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
