On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 08:33:05PM +0100, David Sommerseth wrote: > On 12/11/12 22:14, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 08:14:41AM -0600, Robert Blair wrote: > >> I have a system that failed to boot after the most recent kernel update. > >> It took a while, but I eventually traced it to the initramfs not having > >> raid1 included. I had to manually do a "mkinitrd --preload raid1" ... > >> > >> ... dracut-004-283.el6.noarch > > > > All are invited to inspect the mdadm-related code in dracut. > > > > I've been uncertain if I should respond to this mail or not. But I > struggle to let such rants pass when I think this is a really an unfair > attack.
I say "inspect the product in question" then decide if my attach is "fair" or not. > ... But I do react to your claim which sounds like you think the upstream > developers are clueless and don't care about what they do. That is not what I said. I did not say they are stupid, I did not say they are indifferent or malicious. I said that they are crazy. There is a difference. Some crazy stuff works great, this one does not. > All the code in this Enterprise Linux distro comes from an open source > upstream source. There are usually upstream communities to discuss > things with. And there are communities where you can provide patches > fixing things you find not being in a good shape. There is a minor problem with your suggestion that I send bug fixes to upstream: Upstream is at dracut-024 (Oct-2012), SL6 is at dracut-004 (January-2010). I can elaborate on how bug fixes to upstream do no good to SL users. > Throwing out such trash which you did will definitely not improve > anything. Upstream developers do really deserve better treatment from > us - no matter what we think of their work. Please refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_Clothes -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada
