Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] pygrub: look harder for elilo.conf

[John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:53:20PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 04:48 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 10:42:44PM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote:
> > >  
> > >          if platform.machine() == 'ia64':
> > >              self.cf = grub.LiloConf.LiloConfigFile()
> > > -            file_list = ("/efi/redhat/elilo.conf",)
> > > +            # common distributions
> > > +            file_list = ("/efi/debian/elilo.conf", 
> > > "/efi/gentoo/elilo.conf", 
> > > +                         "/efi/redflag/elilo.conf", 
> > > "/efi/redhat/elilo.conf", 
> > > +                         "/efi/SuSE/elilo.conf",)
> > 
> > How about simply having it iterate over every first level subdirectory of 
> > /efi,
> > ie basically looking for  /efi/*/elilo.conf  rather than hardcoding a small
> > list of distros ?
> 
>    I think Aron looked into it briefly, but it wasn't clear how to do
> that in libfsimage.  If it can be done, that certainly sounds like less
> maintenance.  Thanks,

There is no way yet to iterate directory entries, since it's not been
needed yet. You could do it, but you'd have to add new code to every FS
backend, so it wouldn't be fun.

regards
john

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