Re: device syntax again

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Jan 19, 2005, at 1:58 AM, Vincent Pelletier wrote:
> | Would you add
> | yet a third namespace? In Open Firmware use "disk"; in GRUB use 
> "hd0";
> | in Linux use "/dev/sda"?
>
> Isn't it possible to support both syntax ?
> (hd0,0)/path/file
> and
> ~ (/address@hidden,0/address@hidden,1/address@hidden/address@hidden,0)/path/file
> ~ or
> ~ (disk)/path/file

That is exactly what I'd like to see.

Unfortunately, various code throughout GRUB looks for the first comma 
as separating the device name and partition number. So in the first 
example, code would decide that the device name is "/address@hidden" and the 
partition number is "0/address@hidden,1/address@hidden/address@hidden,0", and cause an error.

Okuji and Marco feel it would be too confusing to even allow the first 
example, despite the fact that the second example would continue to 
work.

-Hollis