Re: [PATCH] Fix CPUID documentation and return values

Am Freitag, den 31.07.2009, 18:07 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:05:37PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Robert Millan<rmh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 01:03:51AM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko 
> > > wrote:
> > >> Hello. CPUID command currently doesn't return a real grub_err_t and
> > >> errors aren't set which doesn't fit in grub2's design.
> > >> Addirionally "help cpuid" doesn't give really useful info. So for
> > >> future expandability and less confusion I propose the attached patch
> > >> partially based on original patch by Robert Millan
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I don't remember about this patch.  I assume I wrote it in 2007 when
> > > merging cpuid support for first time.
> > Yes, it is.
> > >  Any idea why it wasn't it committed
> > > back then?
> > >
> > None. Yoshinori K Okuji approved it here:
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-05/msg00148.html
> 
> I vaguely recall having disabled it because there was some issue with
> scripting.  Assuming it's working properly now, I have no objection with
> it.
> 

There was one.
if [ 0=1 ] ; then echo t ; else echo f ; fi
did print t but then also `error: false'
This is now fixed.

-- 
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer



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