[arch-dev-public] [PATCH] Add boot probing hooks

[Roman Kyrylych]

2007/11/28, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
> On Nov 15, 2007 11:00 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Nov 5, 2007 11:55 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 11/5/07, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > > > Roman Kyrylych schrieb:
> > > > > 2007/11/5, Simo Leone <simo at archlinux.org>:
> > > > >> Initscripts now export their state to an
> > > > >> arbitrary boot logging/probing program.
> > > > >> This opens up the possibility for advanced
> > > > >> boot profiling, among other interesting uses.
> > > > >
> > > > > Hm, this looks very similar to the latest splash support as modified by Thomas.
> > > > > The hooks in both patches are placed at exactly same positions.
> > > > > This brings me to an idea of unification of both patces into one hook
> > > > > support with 2 hooks - splash and probe (adding other hooks will be
> > > > > deadly simple too).
> > > > > Simo, Thomas, do you like this idea?
> > > >
> > > > It is actually a copy of the splash patch with generalized naming. Simo,
> > > > what is the intention here?
> > >
> > > His intent was to keep people from going "no way! I hate splash!". I
> > > think, more or less, he was proving a point 8)
> >
> > Thomas, any final word here? I know the splash people would like it.
> > And, for the record, I do like the more generalized names without
> > "splash", because in essence they're progress output and not splash
> > specific.
> >
>
> Ping? Can we move this one forward here - this is the same patch as
> before with better, more generic names.

Pong! I've sent a patch against the splash branch to Thomas about a minute ago.
BTW, I think http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6989 is obsoleted now.

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)