Cannot use UUID with self-compiled kernel (Hardy)

Mumia W. paduille.4062.mumia.w+nospam at earthlink.net
Fri Jul 25 16:14:06 UTC 2008


Rashkae wrote:
> 
> It's not a bug.. Being able to specify a root device by UUID is just one
> of the many benefits initramfs offers.
> 
> http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Uk/uk.comp.os.linux/2007-03/msg00069.html
> 
> I think the direction of kernel devs is to offload as much stuff to
> userspace as possible, so I doubt anyone will be interested in
> integrating the UUID stuff into the kernel.
> 

Thank you. I filed a bug anyway: 
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11162







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