On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 04:40:41PM +0200, Ondřej Lysoněk wrote: > On 14.6.2018 12:06, Jan Kurik wrote: > I noticed the official spec defines a field named "machine-id". AFAICS, > GRUB2 doesn't implement that option, but it supports a field named "id". > Are these used for the same thing? If they are, why are they named > differently? This questions wasn't addressed yet afaics. The partial answer is that "id" serves a different purpose to "machine-id": - "machine-id" is used to specify the machine for which the entry was installed - "id" is used by grub2 as a unique identifier usable for saving entries That raises two questions: 1. Why isn't just the bls-snippet filename used as the key? It's necessarily unique and should be usable for the purpose of uniquely identifying the boot entry without creating a separate field. 2. Why is "id" supposed to be sortable? What sorting would grub2 do with it? Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/YNA3GM3JPZVPZSE6CGFWZ54NMFIJJ2Y4/
