Bug#589118: `rdev` setting ignored
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-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201007170018.o6h0ifmg076...@m5p.com
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Bug#589118: `rdev` setting ignored
close 589118 thanks On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Elliott Mitchell wrote: reopen 589118 quit If a maintainer closes a bug, and after a single round of explanation, still does not agree with reopening the bug, the bug should stay closed. If you disagree with the maintainer, then your choices are to either attempt to: 1) convince the maintainer that your viewpoint is correct, preferably by submitting a patch which fixes the perceived problem, along with rationale as to why the patch is correct. 2) attempt to convince the technical committee that the maintainer is incorrect, and should be overridden. This necessitates a patch as required for #1. In neither case should you reopen bugs that a maintainer has closed.[1] Continuing to do so will result in restricting your use of cont...@bugs.debian.org. Don Armstrong (on behalf of ow...@bugs.debian.org) 1: It is of course acceptable to reopen a bug in cases when the maintainer is likely to agree with you, but that is clearly not the case here. -- There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Bach http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100717020343.gm31...@rzlab.ucr.edu
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Bug#589118: `rdev` setting ignored
reopen 589118 quit From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 18:11 -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote: Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.92o Subject tells the story. Appears the images generated by initramfs-tools completely ignore the `rdev` setting that the kernel was given to the kernel. While 99% of users may be explicitly passing the root device via passing root=/dev/foo through the bootloader, if that is absent one would think the value from `rdev` would be honored. (yeah, it's an ancient method, but not officially deprecated) If the bootloader passes an initramfs to the kernel, that overrides any rdev parameter. This is nothing to do with the contents of the initramfs. Bzzzt! While the initrd= kernel command-line option and `rdev` kernel settings are not completely orthogonal, they are mostly unrelated. The initrd= option overrides the `rdev` setting in the same fashion the initrd= option overrides the root= and all other kernel command-line options. Mainly, the initramfs can ignore any and all options and use ones built in, or it can implement all those options. It is the root= option that is directly related to `rdev`. 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). 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. -- (\___(\___(\__ --= 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-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201007152048.o6fkm7n7071...@m5p.com
Bug#589118: `rdev` setting ignored
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.92o Subject tells the story. Appears the images generated by initramfs-tools completely ignore the `rdev` setting that the kernel was given to the kernel. While 99% of users may be explicitly passing the root device via passing root=/dev/foo through the bootloader, if that is absent one would think the value from `rdev` would be honored. (yeah, it's an ancient method, but not officially deprecated) -- (\___(\___(\__ --= 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-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201007150111.o6f1byyw068...@m5p.com
