Re: [PATCH,HURD] Fix grub-probe with userland partition support

[Samuel Thibault]

Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, le Tue 24 Apr 2012 11:04:46 +0200, a 
écrit :
> On 24.04.2012 01:34, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > +/* Retrieve the storage information for PATH, and search which partitions
> > + * contains its start.  */
> > +static char *
> > +find_hurd_root_device (const char *path)
> > +{
> > +  struct store *path_store, *part_store;
> > +  char *devpath = NULL;
> > +  const char *prefix;
> > +  size_t len, prefix_len;
> > +  store_offset_t path_start;
> > +  int part;
> > +
> > +  path_store = storeinfo_store (path);
> > +  if (! path_store)
> > +    grub_util_error ("Could not retrieve storage information for `%s'", 
> > path);
> > +  if (! path_store->name)
> > +    grub_util_error ("No storage name associated with `%s'", path);
> grub_util_error messages should be marked for translation. And probably
> have a TRANSLATORS comment about the context.

Ah, I had only had a look at the existing grub_util_info calls, which
are not marked for translation.

> > +      if (first_run->start * part_store->block_size <= path_start &&
> > +     (last_run->start + last_run->length) * part_store->block_size > 
> > path_start) {
> Why this weird check rather than just check that start is the same?

Because path_start is the start of the file, not of the partition
containing the file.

> Some partitions may contain more partitions, like logical container
> contains logical partitions.

Yes, but we do not have defined /dev namings for these yet, so we don't
know how to look for them grom GRUB yet.

Samuel