[Yaird-devel] Bug#457467: Bug#457467: Bug#457467: failures due to changed kernel interfaces is a feature, not a bug

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On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 07:42:26PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote:
> yaird breaks on every new kernel, just experienced as i wanted
> to let you know another important failure:
> uname -a
> Linux dual 2.6.24-rc7-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 16 09:27:04 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>  mkinitrd.yaird -o /tmp/foo
>  yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00
>  yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00
>  yaird error: unrecognised device:
>  /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00
>  yaird error: unrecognised device:
>  /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:00
>  yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00
>  yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00
>  yaird error: unrecognised device:
>  /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00
>  yaird error: unrecognised device:
>  /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/device:05
>  yaird error: unrecognised device:
>  /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/device:05/LNXVIDEO:01
>  yaird error: there were errors in this run, aborting now without output
>  (fatal)
>...
> this bug is of an rc severity as hinted by the debian testing rm.
> /sysfs, /proc entries and config variables change, but yaird is
> still expected to produce a damm initramfs. aboves output is fine
> as warning, but must not be fatal.

I have changed one Base::fatal() call to Base::warning() in my patch
(see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;bug=460818 file
yaird-0.0.12/perl/Input.pm), I don't know if Jonas merged this.

Maybe we should change all Base::fatal() calls into Base::warning()

rajo

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