On Wed, 2015-12-09 at 22:09 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
[...]
> > By the way, I am still hoping to get my parse_numeric patch, available at
> > http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/kernel/parse_numeric.patch, included in
> > initramfs-tools.
>
> It's not there any more...
>
> > The current code cannot handle a kernel composite device number
> > greater than 0xfffff. With the patch, it should be able to handle any valid
> > kernel composite device number.
>
> ...but I sent you my patch for this. It's also on that git branch.
>
> Please can you test initramfs-tools built from that branch? Note that
> this has the binary package split into initramfs-tools and initramfs-
> tools-core, and you'll need to install both.
These changes are now in unstable; please can you confirm whether the
bug is fixed? If I don't hear from you I'll eventually just close
this.
Ben.
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