Review Request: Support for GRUB2 submenus

[Konstantinos Smanis]

> On July 31, 2012, 6:39 p.m., Lamarque Vieira Souza wrote:
> > kdm/backend/bootman.c, line 269
> > <http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105563/diff/11/?file=75565#file75565line269>
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> >     I think the memory for *sep has not been allocated yet at this point, so you should use something like strdup here instead of a simple assignment.

I can find 2 uses of the function over here (line #776 @ ctrl.c and line #841 in dm.c). Both allocate the pointer properly (lines #771 and #824 respectively), unless I am missing something?


- Konstantinos


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On July 31, 2012, 5:54 p.m., Konstantinos Smanis wrote:
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> (Updated July 31, 2012, 5:54 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Runtime and Oswald Buddenhagen.
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> Description
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> Recent versions of GRUB2 introduce submenus which allow for nesting levels to appear (instead of the flat list in the past).
> This patch consists of two parts: the parsing part in KDM (bootman.c) and creating a menu structure from the parsed list in ksmserver (shutdowndlg.*)
> The parsing part produces a list like this:
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> Gentoo GNU/Linux
> Advanced options for Gentoo GNU/Linux
> Advanced options for Gentoo GNU/Linux>Gentoo GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.4.4
> Advanced options for Gentoo GNU/Linux>Gentoo GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.4.4 (recovery mode)
> Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda2)
> ???? ?????????
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> which is then converted into the menu structure. These full identifiers can be properly used with `grub2-reboot`.
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> More info about submenus: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10720316
> Also check the related bug.
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> The parsing part of the patch can be applied in the KDE/4.9 and master branches as well (tested and working in KDE 4.8.95 and 4.9.x). ksmserver has migrated to QML since then however, and the menu structure has to wait. Currently it looks like this: http://i50.tinypic.com/96bw35.png
> Related ML-discussion: http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=134160279511422&w=2
> Update: There is a proper fix now for KDE/4.9 and master: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105568/
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> This addresses bug 297209.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297209
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> Diffs
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>   kdm/backend/bootman.c 8b834d2 
>   kdm/backend/ctrl.c 5d219fe 
>   kdm/backend/dm.h 13e7b45 
>   kdm/backend/dm.c e0f1366 
>   kdm/backend/util.c 6cd93ef 
>   ksmserver/shutdowndlg.h e5f0942 
>   ksmserver/shutdowndlg.cpp a09a1a7 
>   libs/kworkspace/kdisplaymanager.h 76f25a7 
>   libs/kworkspace/kdisplaymanager.cpp 28fabfc 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105563/diff/
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> Testing
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> Works with the menu file produced in my system with `grub2-mkconfig`.
> Also works with a custom menu file I made (as shown in the second screenshot).
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> Screenshots
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> Distribution's stock menu file
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105563/s/633/
> A custom menu file for testing
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105563/s/634/
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> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Konstantinos Smanis
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