[Yaird-devel] Re: Processed: Escalating #345067 to the technical comittee, as the maintainer asked me to do so, and is unable or unwilling to do his job without this.

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 15:25:38 +0100
Sven Luther <sven.luther at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 11:43:34PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:03:17AM -0800, Debian Bug Tracking
> > System wrote:
> > > Subject: Re: Processed: Escalating #345067 to the technical
> > > comittee, as the maintainer asked me to do so, and is unable or
> > > unwilling to do his job without this.
> > 
> > > > reassign 345067 tech-ctte
> > > Bug#345067: [powerpc] ide-generic is not built on powerpc, yaird
> > > Bug#tries to include it and fails 343427:
> > > Bug#linux-image-2.6.14-2-powerpc: Installation fails
> > > Bug reassigned from package `yaird' to `tech-ctte'.
> > 
> > I can see there's some sort of dispute over this bug, but I can't
> > see a precise explanation of exactly what it breaks. 
> 
> ide-generic is not built on powerpc,

...on official Debian kernels. But other kernels may very well build
that module.


> yaird will inconditionally try to include ide-generic into the
> ramdisk if via82cxxx is present (while the real hacky workaround was
> not to load it always, but only to load it after via82cxxx).

There seem to be no real concensus on what exactly was the problem, the
core bug, the optimal workaround or the optimal solution.

What seems certain is that the core bug is in the kernel somewhere, and
that it has to do with modular IDE drivers.

Please see http://wiki.debian.org/LinuxKernelIdeProblem that I created
today and have invited the kernel team and udev developers to improve
on.


 - Jonas

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