From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.90_1) id 1lONEf-0006OB-L8 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 12:16:57 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50142) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lONEd-0006L4-Rg for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 12:16:55 -0400 Received: from painless-a.thn.aa.net.uk ([2001:8b0:62::26]:42130 helo=alt2.a-painless.mh.aa.net.uk) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lONEb-0008GH-Nn for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 12:16:55 -0400 Received: from f.b.1.7.2.1.e.f.f.f.a.c.5.0.a.6.4.1.b.e.2.f.f.b.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa ([2001:8b0:bff2:eb14:6a05:caff:fe12:71bf] helo=riva.pelham.vpn.ucam.org) by painless-a.thn.aa.net.uk with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lONEa-0006jp-Hr; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 16:16:52 +0000 Received: from ns1.pelham.vpn.ucam.org ([172.20.153.2] helo=riva.ucam.org) by riva.pelham.vpn.ucam.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lONEA-0007Q8-AY; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 16:16:26 +0000 Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 16:16:26 +0000 From: Colin Watson To: Daniel Kiper Cc: mchang@suse.com, grub-devel@gnu.org, Marco A Benatto , Javier Martinez Canillas Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] i386-pc: build verifiers API as module Message-ID: <20210322161626.GN26923@riva.ucam.org> References: <20210318113026.24963-1-mchang@suse.com> <20210322152000.ebheegnkkhpqa4d3@tomti.i.net-space.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210322152000.ebheegnkkhpqa4d3@tomti.i.net-space.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Received-SPF: none client-ip=2001:8b0:62::26; envelope-from=cjwatson@debian.org; helo=alt2.a-painless.mh.aa.net.uk X-Spam_score_int: -14 X-Spam_score: -1.5 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.5 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, KHOP_HELO_FCRDNS=0.399, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_NONE=0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 16:16:56 -0000 On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 04:20:00PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote: > NAK for this patch and others "fixing" small MBR gaps. I am not going to > deal with this kind of issues any longer because a few folks in the > world cannot/do not want/... reinstall their systems. Sorry guys. I'd just like to say that I think this is an unfortunate mistake, and puts distributions in an invidious position. > Additionally, the commit 5fd18f77e (mbr: Warn if MBR gap is small and > user uses advanced modules) and 505d92f5e (mbr: Document new limitations > on MBR gap support) are pretty clear we do not support advanced configs > with small MBR gaps any longer. Yes. As I recently posted to the list, I do not think this should be used as an excuse not to fix problems where it is relatively straightforward to do so. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwatson@debian.org]