Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757717Ab3IFQMu (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Sep 2013 12:12:50 -0400 Received: from mail-oa0-f44.google.com ([209.85.219.44]:64024 "EHLO mail-oa0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753785Ab3IFQMt (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Sep 2013 12:12:49 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130906120736.6ef58106@gandalf.local.home> References: <20130905212834.605408a4@gandalf.local.home> <20130906013455.GA10073@redhat.com> <20130905214455.101c6347@gandalf.local.home> <20130906014859.GB10073@redhat.com> <20130905215154.74c55e9a@gandalf.local.home> <20130906035827.GA13446@redhat.com> <20130906093252.02c748f5@gandalf.local.home> <20130906141852.GA18708@redhat.com> <20130906102413.2e52d337@gandalf.local.home> <20130906144113.GC25882@merlin.infradead.org> <20130906152221.GA29715@redhat.com> <20130906113439.5e2692bd@gandalf.local.home> <20130906120736.6ef58106@gandalf.local.home> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 12:12:48 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: AbMKvm49x9qni_VGUqewx_jnDcM Message-ID: Subject: Re: ftrace 'failed to modify' bug when loading reiserfs.ko From: Josh Boyer To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Dave Jones , Kyle McMartin , Linux Kernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1401 Lines: 34 On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 11:46:13 -0400 > Josh Boyer wrote: > > >> > Fedora should really look into defaulting to syslinux. >> >> Doesn't support all the usecases we have, and it's not multi-arch. >> Grub2 has warts, but it's all around more flexible. > > We should be working on making syslinux work for all cases then. Is there something stopping you? :) More specifically, I don't think syslinux will ever support e.g. powerpc or ARM (Aarch64) so it doesn't seem like a general purpose solution. I could be wrong. > Grub2 has more than warts, it's a total disaster. I have not found a > single user that likes grub2 (outside of the grub2 developers > themselves). > > The "oneshot" booting is totally broken, I could never get it to work > consistently, thus I had to abandon it for ktest. Grub2 may be > flexible, but it is overly complicated. It's horrible to do anything > but the "default" settings. We have essentially one person working on bootloaders and that person has to support them in RHEL too. I'm sure they'd appreciate help. josh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/