Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Fedora-ia64-list] Kernel directory change | From | "Zhang, Yanmin" <> | Date | Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:04:06 +0800 |
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On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 09:03 -0400, Doug Chapman wrote: > On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 08:58 +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote: > > Yi, > > > > I installed FC9 Beta ia64 on my Montvale machine and found the kernel > > directory is changed. The old directory is /boot/efi/efi/redhat, but the > > new one is /boot/efi/EFI/redhat. Is there any special reason to do so? > > > > A couple of test suites assumes /boot/efi/efi/redhat. > > > > -yanmin > > > > This changed a while back. What it appears happened was that the vfat > filesystem for some reason now understands upper/lower case. In > actuality it was always /boot/efi/EFI but the linux implementation of > vfat shifted the directory name to lower case. > > Note that under the EFI shell it was always an upper case EFI as that is > what is actually on the filesystem. I would suggest modifying your test > to handle either case. That's not a good idea. Although it's caused by vfat improvements, I would suggest to keep the old interface.
Long long ago, there was a long discussion about interface change on LKML. It's a bad idea to change interfaces or API when they become de facto.
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