Stephen Powell wrote: > The current code works the way that lilo works, and I doubt that > the lilo code in question will ever change its algorithm. It currently > assumes that both the major and minor device numbers of the root file > system are less than or equal to 255, and that is what the parse_numeric > shell function in initramfs-tools assumes also.
Less than or equal to 4095 and 255 respectively, technically. ;-) The full formula was just trivia. (stat's st_dev and lilo's MKDEV() macro use it, for what it's worth.) Thanks again, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130103064852.GA32228@elie.Belkin
