Re: ack! grub bug...

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

From: Jeff Garzik <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: ack! grub bug...
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 19:29:04 -0500

> Because at that point, we are working around a grub-specific problem in
> the kernel, which is caused by grub working around a now-resolved kernel
> problem!  :)  It's a workaround for a workaround, and that is not good
> engineering.

Yeah, I know. But bad things cannot be removed immediately, merely
because they are bad.

> BTW, I just got confirmation from Alan Cox that 2.2.19pre backports the
> stable-for-a-while-now 2.3/2.4 ram detection code.  Note that this is
> mainly a distro issue, -tangent- and related to the current discussion
> but not directly affecting the discussion.  [not using mem=XX unless
> required has always been policy... its just that <2.2.17 kernels have
> shoddy ram detection]

I think that makes it clear that I and you are sitting in different
fields... Because you are an OS distributor, you can control most of
the software programs the user installs, so if you ship your
distribution with a newer kernel, you don't have to care about older
kernels. But I have to do, because many GRUB users still use older
(and buggy) kernels.

Okuji