error of processing hwaddr kernel option

[Alexandr Larin]

The file /usr/share/initramfs-tools/init contains a error of processing hwaddr kernel option: the prefix "BOOTIF" is removed from the option string "hwaddr=*".

    hwaddr=*)
        BOOTIF=${x#BOOTIF=}
        ;;

It should be

    hwaddr=*)
        BOOTIF=${x#hwaddr=}
        ;;

The patch is attached.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

@Alexandr -- could you indicate which series of Ubuntu you are seeing this in, as this appears to have been correct at least since 0.120 was merged from Debian, and so it is correct in Xenial. Thanks for reporting.

[Alexandr Larin (larin-alexandr)]

The bug has been found on 12.04 and 14.04 Ubuntu releases. Versions of the package are 0.99ubuntu13.5 and 0.103ubuntu4.2 respectively. I did not check non-LTS releases.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

This is fixed at least since 0.122ubuntu8.17 in Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial).