reopen 589118 quit >From: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> > On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 13:48 -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > Bzzzt! While the "initrd=" kernel command-line option and `rdev` kernel > > settings are not completely orthogonal, they are mostly unrelated. > > You obviously haven't read the code. I have.
This is in fact true. An unrelated project may cause me to do so. > > Unlike the kernel command-line, I don't know how the `rdev` (and > > accompanying) setting is passed along to initial ram disks, but I do know > > it is (or was). > > It isn't. Reeeaaally? Sorry to be speculating outside my area of firm knowledge, but I'm noting that the rdev setting was honored all the way through Debian 3.1/Sarge, which was a 2.4 kernel. Was the rdev setting really available to initial ramdisks all the way through 2.4, yet lost with 2.6 kernels? > > I'm unsure whether Debian 4.0/Etch honored the `rdev` > > setting, but I am pretty certain initial ram disks generated with Debian > > 3.1/Sage did honor the `rdev` setting unless overridden by the "root=" > > option. > > That's nice, but this feature isn't coming back. That sounds suspiciously like "wontfix", not "done". -- (\___(\___(\______ --=> 8-) EHM <=-- ______/)___/)___/) \BS ( | e...@gremlin.m5p.com PGP F6B23DE0 | ) / \_CS\ | _____ -O #include <stddisclaimer.h> O- _____ | / _/ 2477\___\_|_/DC21 03A0 5D61 985B <-PGP-> F2BE 6526 ABD2 F6B2\_|_/___/3DE0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
