Bug#335264: yaird fails with older (titanium) powerbooks.

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 11:15:32AM +0200, Erik van Konijnenburg wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 01:31:54AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On my titanium powerbook, yaird fails with : 
> > 
> >  yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/pci0001:10/0001:10:17.0/0.80000000:mac-io
> >  yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/pci0001:10/0001:10:17.0/0.80000000:mac-io/0.0001f000:ata-4
> > 
> > Well, those are non-fatal errors, and the mac-io is just a super-controller
> > kind of thingy sitting on the pci bus, and holding the ata-* devices, which in
> > turn have ide0 or ide1 subdirs, which are the ones given in the path.
> > 
> > Now, there are two problems, first is that we should harmlessly recognize
> > those above, provided in the attached patch, well not sure about the exact
> > syntax of the comment, but this should do, and i added a small typo-fixing in
> > the above comment :).
> 
> OK, I copied Jonases 0.0.11-7 version of this for 0.0.12.
> 
> > The second problem is that since the initrd is generated correctly, those
> > non-harmfull errors should maybe not cause mkinitrd.yaird to return and error
> > code of 1 and thus fail, not sure though.
> 
> That was a conscious decision: we dont recognise the syntax of the
> device name, so there's no reason to suppose that device does not need
> a module, so no reason to suppose that an image without module would
> boot.  Exit 1 is the only honest result nder those circumstances.

Ok, but then please include some bug-reporting message after the error,
instructing users to mail you the error or whatever, so it can be fixed, what
do you think ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther