Bug#606806: initramfs-tools: Handling of numeric root= arguments is not udev-friendly

2010-12-14 Thread Evan Broder
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:42 AM, maximilian attems wrote: > Ok great, applied in maks/num_root branch in > http://git.debian.org/?p=kernel/initramfs-tools.git;a=summary > > could you please have a look that i didn't botch the commit > as I had to hand apply due to the attached patch, beeing agains

Bug#606806: initramfs-tools: Handling of numeric root= arguments is not udev-friendly

2010-12-14 Thread maximilian attems
tags 606806 pending stop On Sat, 11 Dec 2010, Evan Broder wrote: > > I see. I wasn't aware of BUSYBOX=no. But looking at this again, I > think I actually want to take a different approach in order to > maintain the current semantics of setting root=X:Y. Ok great, applied in maks/num_root branch

Bug#606806: initramfs-tools: Handling of numeric root= arguments is not udev-friendly

2010-12-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 13:48 +0100, H.-R. Oberhage wrote: > Thanks, ... > > On Dec 13, Stephen Powell wrote: > > [...] > > specification. For example, on my system I use > > > >... > >boot=/dev/disk/by-uuid/055d446a-977d-4aa6-877d-62c716f5e85a > >... > >root="UUID=055d446a-977d-4a

Bug#606806: initramfs-tools: Handling of numeric root= arguments is not udev-friendly

2010-12-13 Thread H.-R. Oberhage
Thanks, ... On Dec 13, Stephen Powell wrote: > [...] > specification. For example, on my system I use > >... >boot=/dev/disk/by-uuid/055d446a-977d-4aa6-877d-62c716f5e85a >... >root="UUID=055d446a-977d-4aa6-877d-62c716f5e85a" > > in /etc/lilo.conf. .. for a very valuable hint (t

Bug#606806: initramfs-tools: Handling of numeric root= arguments is not udev-friendly

2010-12-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 03:31:44 -0500 (EST), H. R. Oberhage wrote: > > This is also the answer to you question what I use 'it' for, namely simply > LILO. As I suspected. First of all, as Ben is well aware, I am not a maintainer for initramfs-tools, udev, or any other Debian package. I'm just a fel

Bug#606806: initramfs-tools: Handling of numeric root= arguments is not udev-friendly

2010-12-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 09:31:44AM +0100, H.-R. Oberhage wrote: > On Dec 11, Evan Broder wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > Maybe this feature should simply be deprecated.  What do you use it for? It is used by LILO. > I strongly object as long as GRUB and esp

Bug#606806: initramfs-tools: Handling of numeric root= arguments is not udev-friendly

2010-12-13 Thread H.-R. Oberhage
Hello! On Dec 11, Evan Broder wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-12-11 at 13:14 -0800, Evan Broder wrote: > >> Package: initramfs-tools > >> Version: 0.98.1 > >> Severity: normal > >> Tags: patch > >> User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com > >> Usertags:

Bug#606806: initramfs-tools: Handling of numeric root= arguments is not udev-friendly

2010-12-11 Thread Evan Broder
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:46 PM, maximilian attems wrote: > thank you for submitting, I had seen it and had a question to the patch. > >> === modified file 'scripts/functions' >> --- scripts/functions 2010-10-04 22:34:10 + >> +++ scripts/functions 2010-11-27 02:56:12 + >> @@ -364,8 +364,8

Bug#606806: initramfs-tools: Handling of numeric root= arguments is not udev-friendly

2010-12-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 16:34:56 -0500 (EST), Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2010-12-11 at 13:14 -0800, Evan Broder wrote: >> If you pass a root= argument with a numeric device number >> (i.e. root=0806), that's currently resolved by running mknod to create >> a /dev/root device with an appropriate maj

Bug#606806: initramfs-tools: Handling of numeric root= arguments is not udev-friendly

2010-12-11 Thread maximilian attems
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 01:14:42PM -0800, Evan Broder wrote: > > If you pass a root= argument with a numeric device number > (i.e. root=0806), that's currently resolved by running mknod to create > a /dev/root device with an appropriate major/minor number and setting > ROOT=/dev/root (the parse_nu

Bug#606806: initramfs-tools: Handling of numeric root= arguments is not udev-friendly

2010-12-11 Thread Evan Broder
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2010-12-11 at 13:14 -0800, Evan Broder wrote: >> Package: initramfs-tools >> Version: 0.98.1 >> Severity: normal >> Tags: patch >> User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com >> Usertags: origin-ubuntu natty ubuntu-patch >> >> If you pass a r

Bug#606806: initramfs-tools: Handling of numeric root= arguments is not udev-friendly

2010-12-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2010-12-11 at 13:14 -0800, Evan Broder wrote: > Package: initramfs-tools > Version: 0.98.1 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com > Usertags: origin-ubuntu natty ubuntu-patch > > If you pass a root= argument with a numeric device number > (i.e. root=0806), t

Bug#606806: initramfs-tools: Handling of numeric root= arguments is not udev-friendly

2010-12-11 Thread Evan Broder
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.98.1 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu natty ubuntu-patch If you pass a root= argument with a numeric device number (i.e. root=0806), that's currently resolved by running mknod to create a /dev/root device w