Comment 7 for bug 7497

Message-ID: <20040829132621.GA11068@muffin>
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:26:24 +0200
From: "Wesley W. Terpstra" <email address hidden>
To: Debian kernel team <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Please apply the crypto patch!

Oh, btw the release critical bug #266540 which is holding up
kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 from testing is caused b/c this patch is not
applied.

On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 03:16:00PM +0200, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:
> Hello, bug #247054 has been open forever.
>
> The previous maintainer and I had prepared it some time ago, and it really
> should be applied. It was labelled wishlist when it was first opened because
> it was experimental. However, many people are now manually patching their
> mkinitrd because the patch is still not merged. This patch has been tested
> by many people since then, and has proven to be quite stable.
>
> This is becoming critical, because without the patch, every upgrade of
> mkinitrd and the kernel renders the system unbootable! (for people using
> cryptoroot) This just happened to me, ... again.
>
> Also, there is a regression in the lvm handling which Herbert Xu fixed
> months ago. It now again spews error messages during vgchange. They are
> non-fatal, but extremely amature looking.
>
> What is going on?
>
> --
> Wesley W. Terpstra

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Wesley W. Terpstra