On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar_at_gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi_at_gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Warren Block <wblock_at_wonkity.com> wrote: >>> On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Oliver Pinter wrote: >>> >>>> On 10/19/11, Olivier Smedts <olivier_at_gid0.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> 2011/10/19 Marcel Moolenaar <marcel_at_xcllnt.net>: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Oct 18, 2011, at 9:04 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Would you be able to commit a variant of this patch sans the 'x' part? >>>>>> >>>>>> Yes, soonish. If people like the 'x' change I can do that in a followup >>>>>> commit as well. I just need to know if people like it or not... >>>>> >>>>> Yes, it's useful. But why not "q" for "quit" ? Just a bikeshed color >>>>> idea... >>>>> >>>> eXit :) >>> >>> In some languages... >>> >>> More important to me is the "the Abort manual input" which tells what it >>> does but not why the user would want to do that. >>> >>> Abort manual input... and then what? Hang? Retry? Panic? Reboot? Resume >>> attempting to mount the root device that was expected? >> > well, panic, there isn't much other thing to do. At the very least, > letting the user input something is still better than what Linux do, > which is to panic. > >> Or just go back to status quo for previous releases and we can worry >> about usability later? >> > which status-quo ? the mountroot procedure of 7 is broken as well, as > I found out yesterday. So what ? 6 ? 5 ? 4 ? The status quo that I was thinking of was press enter to get a list of available devices instead of immediately panicking like the new bootloader code currently does. As long as that status quo is restored, I think a lot of existing users will be happy. Otherwise this discussion could stall and turn into an unnecessary bikeshed. Thanks, -GarrettReceived on Fri Oct 21 2011 - 03:48:35 UTC
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