On Wed, 2017-02-01 at 15:30 +0100, Emmanuel Kasper wrote:
> Package: di-utils
> Version: 1.117
> Severity: minor
> Tags: d-i
>
> A kernel boot param like net.ifnames=0 will be skipped when the
> installer parses the boot option for setting the bootloader.
>
> Found in di-utils:
>
> # Skip module-specific variables
> varnodot="${var##*.*}"
> if [ "$varnodot" = "" ]; then
> continue
> fi
>
> So basically any option containing a dot is not propagated to the
> installed system. This was introduced by
> 7cf15980d714da8b958a73c93459ee09fdbb9415 ("Skip new module-specific
> parameters in user-params.")
>
> I found no documented or obvious reason for this behaviour.
Sounds like the assumption was that any "foo.bar=baz" arguments were
always to be used as the "bar=baz" option when loading the "foo" module
(i.e. "modprobe foo bar=baz"), which I think the installer supports
(for convenience) but perhaps not the installed system (where they
should instead be in /etc/modules or /etc/modprobe.conf or similar)
does not?
Of course this logic falls apart in the presence of "foo" (such as
"net") which are not modules but instead are subsystems.
Ian.
