On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 01:31:54AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On my titanium powerbook, yaird fails with : > > yaird error: unrecognised device: > /sys/devices/pci0001:10/0001:10:17.0/0.80000000:mac-io > yaird error: unrecognised device: > /sys/devices/pci0001:10/0001:10:17.0/0.80000000:mac-io/0.0001f000:ata-4 > > Well, those are non-fatal errors, and the mac-io is just a super-controller > kind of thingy sitting on the pci bus, and holding the ata-* devices, which in > turn have ide0 or ide1 subdirs, which are the ones given in the path. > > Now, there are two problems, first is that we should harmlessly recognize > those above, provided in the attached patch, well not sure about the exact > syntax of the comment, but this should do, and i added a small typo-fixing in > the above comment :).
OK, I copied Jonases 0.0.11-7 version of this for 0.0.12. > The second problem is that since the initrd is generated correctly, those > non-harmfull errors should maybe not cause mkinitrd.yaird to return and error > code of 1 and thus fail, not sure though. That was a conscious decision: we dont recognise the syntax of the device name, so there's no reason to suppose that device does not need a module, so no reason to suppose that an image without module would boot. Exit 1 is the only honest result nder those circumstances. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
