Re: [patch] set prefix on PPC

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Feb 20, 2005, at 11:50 AM, Marco Gerards wrote:
> > If a user installs GRUB now with this bootargs patch, then later if we
> > wish to add a debug option with "fancy parser" they will no longer be
> > able to boot, as the syntax will change.
> >
> > Now: "boot grubof hd0,6"
> > Later: "boot grubof prefix=hd0,6 debug=all"
>
> I do not like the prefix= syntax.  What I want is:
>
> Now: "boot grubof (hd0,6)"
> Later: "boot grubof (hd0,6) --debug=all"
>
> > Users trying to boot with the old syntax will fail.
>
> In my case it will still work. :)

In your case we are stuck with an inflexible syntax forever. There is a 
reason that commandline tools use named switches, and do not require 
them in any particular order.

-Hollis