Bug#633880: mdadm: breaks booting with empty sublevel definition in uname -r (like kernel 3.0)

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

tags 633880 + fixed-upstream
thanks

Hi

On Saturday 31 December 2011, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
[...]
> Using a kernel with empty SUBLEVEL definition, like
> 
> VERSION = 3
> PATCHLEVEL = 0
> SUBLEVEL =
> EXTRAVERSION = -rc7
> NAME = Sneaky Weasel
> 
> breaks booting with / on LVM2 on RAID1 (mdadm), as the RAID array can't
> be assembled. An according fix has been added to Fedora with
> 
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=mdadm.git;a=blob;f=mdadm-3.2.1-version.patch;h=2a935e97ced2b244249496d3a758ae119aee548f;hb=HEAD
> (I can confirm this patch to be working, if I ignore -Werror - #625392)
> 
> Be aware that current Debian kernels in experimental define SUBLEVEL 
> as 0, to defer compatibility issues like this. So this won't be an
> immediate issue in Debian, although it would be nice to get this fixed
> to work with upcomming upstream kernels.
[...]

An equivalent patch has been merged upstream in

	http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm;a=commitdiff;h=f161d047eed634b3380262767f955eb888502e88

and has been released as part of the bugfix release mdadm-3.2.3 a week
ago, it would be great to see this bug fixed in Debian as well.

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
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