Bug#820156: parse_numeric function cannot handle composite device numbers of more than 8 hex digits

2016-04-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, Apr 5, 2016, at 20:37, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I'm not applying this until the kernel actually supports device numbers > that large.  Currently it defines (in include/linux/kdev_t.h): > > static inline u32 new_encode_dev(dev_t dev) { ... } > static inline dev_t new_decode_dev(u32 dev) {

Bug#820156: parse_numeric function cannot handle composite device numbers of more than 8 hex digits

2016-04-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: severity -1 wishlist On Tue, 2016-04-05 at 19:13 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > Package: initramfs-tools-core > Version: 0.123 > Severity: minor > Tags: patch > > Congratulations on initramfs-tools version 0.123!  Many bugs in version 0.120 > have been fixed in this version.  However,

Bug#820156: parse_numeric function cannot handle composite device numbers of more than 8 hex digits

2016-04-05 Thread Stephen Powell
Package: initramfs-tools-core Version: 0.123 Severity: minor Tags: patch Congratulations on initramfs-tools version 0.123! Many bugs in version 0.120 have been fixed in this version. However, it appears that the parse_numeric function, while improved over the 0.120 version, still doesn't handle