On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 01:15:18PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Control: forcmerge??588675 -1 > > On Fri, 2016-06-10 at 18:16 -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > The kernel build scripts are confused by what the SCSI subsystem produces > > in /proc/mounts: > > This is not controlled by the SCSI subsystem. > > Unlike you, I've read the relevant source code, and I'm the upstream > maintainer of initramfs-tools. ??I've seen problems like this before. > When I ask you questions I am not just speculating.
I'm pretty sure the initramfs isn't the problem, though its presence does manage to work around bug #588675. > > $ awk '$2 == "/" && $1 != "rootfs"' < /proc/mounts > > /dev/root / ext3 ro > > $?? > > > > A kernel build on such a system will panic on boot unless the root > > filesystem is explicitly passed to the kernel by the bootloader.????While > > in common configurations bootloaders generally default to telling the > > kernel what device it should use as root, that has not been documented to > > be required. > > It seems pretty obvious to me that you have to specify the root device > somehow. Indeed, and there are lots of ways to do that. There is the "rdev" setting (which I'm pretty sure is what underlies #826999), you or your bootloader can also specify a device on the kernel's command-line. > > Since Ben Hutchings thinks #588675 is too insignificant to ever be worthy > > of a single line of code to fix, this bug now needs to be fixed (along > > with many other utilities that are broken by #588675). > > I make no judgement about the significance of that bug. ??But if you > refuse to answer a maintainer's reasonable questions about a report, > there is no way to progress and it should be closed. That is a perfectly reasonable statement. Please cite an example of such an unanswered question. -- (\___(\___(\______ --=> 8-) EHM <=-- ______/)___/)___/) \BS ( | ehem+sig...@m5p.com PGP 87145445 | ) / \_CS\ | _____ -O #include <stddisclaimer.h> O- _____ | / _/ 8A19\___\_|_/58D2 7E3D DDF4 7BA6 <-PGP-> 41D1 B375 37D0 8714\_|_/___/5445
