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Am 22.03.2014 13:29, schrieb Alexander Holler:
> The initramfs generation is broken for file and directory names which contain
> colons, spaces and other unusual characters. Print an error and don't try to
> continue.

(...)
> +	# Files and directories with spaces and colons are unsupported.
> +	local unsupported=$(find "${srcdir}" -regex '.*\(:\| \|\n\|\r\|\t\).*')

I've just noted that -regex isn't POSIX. I don't know the kernel rules 
regarding this, and I don't care. But it might be a blocker for this patch.

Regards,

Alexander Holler