Re: [PATCH v2 08/12] kern: Make grub_error() more verbose

[Daniel Kiper]

Re-adding address@hidden...

On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 12:44:05PM +0100, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> Le ven. 6 mars 2020 à 12:42, Daniel Kiper <address@hidden> a écrit :
>
> > On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 03:22:31PM +0100, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
> > wrote:
> > > Please evaluate size increase for this. In the past passing file and line
> > > number to grub_dprintf was a huge source of increased Kern and core size
> >
> > I think it does not matter much if we stop pretending that we support
> > small MBR gaps right now [1]. Does it?
> >
> There are still a lot of installations that used older tools and never
> reformatted. We still care about them

If we go that way then we have to care about them by the end of the
universe. And this means more and more issues like [1]. If somebody
wants to use new GRUB then he/she have to reinstall the machine or
something like that. IMO we should not care about users who do not want
upgrade their machines or whatnot. Or at least their choices cannot
impact GRUB development too much. And I think that this MBR constraint
is hindering the project too much at this point. So, as above...

Sorry for being blunt...

Daniel

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2019-11/msg00025.html