[syslinux] [PATCH 2/9] ldlinux: Print a warning if no config file is found

[H. Peter Anvin]

It is supposed to clear the search string.

Matt Fleming <matt at console-pimps.org> wrote:

>On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 05:52 -0500, Gene Cumm wrote:
>> On Nov 5, 2012 5:28 AM, "Matt Fleming" <matt.fleming at intel.com>
>wrote:
>> 
>> >     printf("%-68s\n", "Unable to locate configuration file");
>> 
>> Is there a reason it's not:
>> 
>>     printf("Unable to locate configuration file\n");
>
>You'd need to ask Peter since it was changed from your suggestion to
>the
>current printf() string in the following commit,
>
>commit 33cc00e1bd268148efdd994b1fb961645ab95cd7
>Author: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
>Date:   Sun Feb 28 19:00:17 2010 -0800
>
>    pxe: revamp timeout, improve the unloading of gpxelinux
>    
>    Revamp the timeout mechanism, to deal with UDP stacks (like gPXE!)
>    which lose transmit packets.  gPXE, in particular, will drop a UDP
>    packet if it doesn't have the recipient in the ARP cache.
>    Furthermore, it has the poor taste to not even send back an error.
>    
>    Also, always unload gPXE when present, before exiting.  This should
> let us clean up low memory better.  Reconsider if this turns out to be
>    too slow.
>    
>    Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>

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