Bug#769107: debian-installer: grub-installer fails if more than 26 SCSI devices are present
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote (24 Nov 2014 04:09:01):
> device_to_disk already knows how to do the mapping. We have this
> complicated wildcard here which doesn't match the regexp in
> device_to_disk, only because no-one got round to clearing out the devfs
> cruft which is the following '*' case.
>
> So I propose this instead:
>
> Subject: Remove devfs case for mapping partitions to whole disk names
> (Closes: #769107)
>
> Rather than using an unmaintainable wildcard for non-devfs
> partition device names, we should remove the obsolete devfs
> case and use device_to_disk by default.
>
> Also remove one of the many pointless uses of mapdevfs.
Hi,
what's the status here?
Should this be committed?
Or should I file this bug as will-not-fix?
Holger
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