On 26-09-12 4:40 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Hi Miquel,
background: I'm reviewing changes to udeb-producing packages to see
which ones we'd like to get into wheezy before the next debian-installer
release.
Miquel van Smoorenburg <[email protected]> (13/08/2012):
However, there is one minor oversight/bug in the kernel: the sysfs
"range" key is still set to "1" for md arrays. That means libparted
thinks that it's not possible to partition that device, where in fact
it is.
Given there was already a patch on the parted side, am I right to assume
this was also reported against the kernel? If it is, I guess Debian
linux kernel maintainers would be happy to merge the patches fixing this
bug.
Ah, this was fixed another way in the upstream package, by using a
different kernel interface (just a different sysfs file, really). That
is the patch I then backported to the debian parted package. So there is
no need to fix the kernel.
Note that I think it is useful to get this into the installer- it's a
bugfix after all. However to be able to actually do something meaningful
with it, we need an updated lvm2 package as well (working on that with
upstream, I prefer to fix bugs in upstream packages first, then backport
them), an updated mdadm package (only needs a few changes to the debian
part, but the maintainers are mostly ignoring me), and ofcourse a few
small(ish) changes to several installer packages. I haven't sent patches
or filed bugs for the installer packages, trying to get lvm2 and mdadm
fixed first.
Thanks
Mike.
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