Bug#621803: Add support for /run directory

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 05:43:02PM +0100, rleigh wrote:
> severity 621803 important
> tags 621803 + patch
> thanks
> 
> On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 03:08:37AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > Package: initramfs-tools
> > Version: 0.98.8+45+g08fbe1e-1
> > Severity: normal
> > User: rleigh@debian.org
> > Usertags: run-transition
> > 
> > Hi maks,
> > 
> > we already talked about this and you already started implementing /run
> > support in initramfs-tools [1], so this is merely a bug to keep track
> > of this transition [2].
> 
> I didn't see a patch in git, so I've attached a simple one here.
> This creates /run as a tmpfs, and moves the mount to the rootfs
> /run as done for other filesystems.

please look harder next times!

the git archive, don't know where you looked, so here it is:
http://git.debian.org/?p=kernel/initramfs-tools.git;a=summary
checkout the branch maks/run
 
> If this is all that is needed in the main initramfs, will it
> take long to get the /run support into unstable?  It looks like
> this might be a prerequisite for a fully functional udev, and
> for other tools that store state in the initramfs, and it's a
> simple and safe change to make.  I've raised the severity due
> to the /run transition being dependent on this being fixed.

there is *no* point in posting trivial patches round and round.
if you'd build i-t with that branch and have it *well* tested
in several different configuration, then that would be a help.

currently this /run thingy seems like a useless mass_panic().

happy hacking

-- 
maks