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Bug#769107: debian-installer: grub-installer fails if more than 26 SCSI devices are present



On Sun, 2020-08-23 at 13:38 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
> 
> 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?

I think this should be fixed, but I don't know that I ever got as far
as testing that patch.  So this should probably wait until someone has
done that.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program
than vice versa.


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