Bug#349354: why not yaird by default?

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

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:17:39AM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, friendly Sven Luther said:
> 
> [ a long unfriendly rant snipped ]
> 
> Frankly, I don't care whether or not yaird is the default ramdisk
> generator for the kernel.  An MIA upstream is a good reason to decide
> against it, in fact.  The entire rest of your argument sounds like hurt
> feelings because Jonas won't take a broken patch, though, and I'm just
> not interested in that sort of silliness.

And who are you to say it is a broken patch ? Have you looked at it ? The main
problem is that jonas does not even want to look at the patch, so claiming it
is broken without looking at it, it kind of insulting in the first place.

Please have a look at the patch, and show me how it is broken.

> The fact that this same bug exist(s|ed) in udev, mkinitramfs, and yaird
> indicates that there is a real bug in the kernel that is merely being

I personally believe that the real bug is in ide-generic. Powerpc doesn't even
build ide-generic, so should be unaffected by all this silliness, and eric and
jonas decided to add some ugly hack to load ide-generic after the other
modules, without caring that the module doesn't exist.

Frankly, i have been running via-ide on powerpc without ide-generic since over
2 years now, and was never affected by this silly bug, so all i ask that x86
brokeness doesn't break powerpc in some ugly fixes done without understanding.

> triggered by all of these packages.  Can you, as kernel maintainer,
> please spend your energy fixing the kernel bug that is causing all of
> this, instead of wasting my time bickering with Jonas?  This bug
> rendered my laptop unbootable until Md patched around it.

Yeah, how does you like it ? And i am in a situation where my RL work does
include doing support for 1000+ pegasos users out there, whose debian install
gets broken by jonas and erik's half-backed patch, and erik is MIA, and jonas
is not even interested in thinking about fixing it. He never even replied to
the bug report until i pointed it out in erkelenz to him.

So, the thing you are complaining about, is exactly the same i am complaining
about here.

Friendly,

Sven Luther