[Yaird-devel] Bug#496500: Bug#496500: yaird: fails to create initrd when running 2.6.24 etchnhalf kernel

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 04:43:48PM +0200, Maximilian Attems wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:

>> NB! Even if yaird really is "generally too buggy" as judged in 
>> bug#457177, the current release in unstable is far better than the 
>> version currently in Etch, (contains no known regressions, and 
>> actually works out-of-the-box in many cases with recent Linux kernels 
>> whereas etch release don't).
>
>this diff seems a bit huge for a stable update.

I assume you mean a diff between 0.0.12-18 currently in Etch and 
0.0.13-4 currently in Sid.

Agreed, this is too big.

Attached is a proposed patch with only patches directly related to 
support for the newer Linux kernels.



>also considering that lenny is about to be released.

This bugreport concerns Etch. Please keep your abandon-the-past approach 
to the kernel-team - it does not apply here!


>as yaird is considered to be working with default etch kernel, that bug 
>doesn't need any further action.

Yaird is (possibly contrary to other ramdisk-generators) not only for 
"default" kernel, but generally for Linux kernels.

If our ultimate goal for yaird was to deprecate it, then yes, this bug 
should better bit-rot, to help move all its users to use an alternative 
ramdisk-generator.  But that is not our goal.


   - Jonas

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