From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harald Hoyer Subject: Re: [PATCH] dracut: make initial devices outside of initramfs Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 18:15:23 +0200 Message-ID: <4A1C159B.1070009@redhat.com> References: <1243305738.3584.40.camel@obelisk.thedillows.org> <20090526024454.GA10049@redhat.com> <1243306682.3584.42.camel@obelisk.thedillows.org> <1243349941.19603.5.camel@lap75545.ornl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1243349941.19603.5.camel-FqX9LgGZnHWDB2HL1qBt2PIbXMQ5te18@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: David Dillow Cc: "initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" On 05/26/2009 04:59 PM, David Dillow wrote: > On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 16:36 +0200, Andreas Thienemann wrote: >> On Mon, 25 May 2009, David Dillow wrote: >> >>> Bummer, that. And while it makes the initial dash able to give us >>> stderr, it doesn't fix the emergency shell. Of course, I noticed this >>> after hitting send... so bad patch all around. :( >> I think the patch is unnecessary in any case. >> >> Dash loosing stderr when /dev/tty is unavailable is a dash bug. It's been >> fixed in upstream git and the patch has been applied to rawhide and F11. >> >> I think the problem should be considered fixed and we won't have to >> introduce workarounds like pre-creating device nodes. > > Some of us want to use dracut on F10, or better yet CentOS 5.3. And we > test on released distros, not an unreleased one (albeit coming very > soon). > > Does my later patch, that just makes /dev/tty point to /dev/console for > the emergency shell seem unobtrusive enough to take upstream? > > If I need to carry this locally, I don't mind, but I figure others could > use the fix when working on the initramfs. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html just omit the dash module for debugging purposes :) dracut --omit dash -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html