Hi, On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi_at_gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > this discussion should not even have happen, and I'd hope[0] that the next message in this thread is either a new patch, or a revision ID where the stuff is fixed, ie. less talk, more action. Btw, if no action is taken, I do not really care, I'm running my patch and am happy with it. - Arnaud [0]: which is pretty much worthlessReceived on Fri Oct 21 2011 - 03:53:44 UTC
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