[PATCH] use of grub_dprintf in grub_mm_init_region() is misleading

[Robert Millan]

Using grub_dprintf() in grub_mm_init_region() easily leads to think that one
can activate this debug message by issuing `grub_env_set ("debug", "mem")' in
grub_machine_init(), before memory initialisation.

However, that's completely false.  grub_env_set will silently [1] ignore your
call because grub_malloc() ain't usable, possibly making you think for a while
that no free memory was found, and that memory was not initialized at all!

I propose turning it into a disabled grub_printf().

[1] well, it'll return an error code.  but who remembers about checking that?

-- 
Robert Millan

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