Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH OSSTEST v3 04/11] overlay: update overlay/etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2014-12-10 at 13:41 +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 12:54:05PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > #690538 relates to providing an option to remove the submenus. Please
> > can the changelog explain why that is relevant to us.
> > 
> 
> Because somebody else thought not making submenu optional is a bug. So
> do I.

I meant: why is this important to osstest? does using submenus break
something? if so then what? if not then there is no reason to be
diverging from the baseline.
 
> > Did you fix it by removing/reverting the submenu support altogether, as
> > opposed to e.g. importing the patch from Eric Fischer in the bug report?
> > I don't see stuff which I'd expect if you had applied the patch. I think
> > it would be worth spelling out in a bit more detail what the changes
> > you've made to the baseline for each bug were.
> > 
> 
> I fixed this by supplying a 20_linux_xen extracted from wheezy with
> submenu generation removed (2 lines). This is how we dealt with other
> grub bugs.

I think precisely what you've changed from the baseline should be
documented somewhere.

Ian.


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