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Bug#933971: linux-image-4.19.0-5-marvell: Kernel fails to parse mtdparts arg in cmdline. Impacts usage of fw_setenv on plug devices to config uboot.

From Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject Bug#933971: linux-image-4.19.0-5-marvell: Kernel fails to parse mtdparts arg in cmdline. Impacts usage of fw_setenv on plug devices to config uboot.
Date 2019-08-05 20:40 +0200
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On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 20:30 +0200, Evrard, Benjamin wrote:
> It is indeed the same bug and the proposed workaround works fine.
> 
> Still, I think that the choice of compiling the corresponding driver
> as a module instead of embedding it in the kernel is a decision that
> will impact many users when they upgrade their plug device from Debian
> Stretch to Buster.
> 
> Most of them are bound to meet the same issue.
> 
> Any chance this choice would be reconsidered?

I didn't mean to imply that the bug won't be fixed.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. - Leonard Brandwein


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Bug#933971: linux-image-4.19.0-5-marvell: Kernel fails to parse mtdparts arg in cmdline. Impacts usage of fw_setenv on plug devices to config uboot. "Evrard, Benjamin" <benjamin.evrard@adelpha.be> - 2019-08-05 18:40 +0200
  Bug#933971: linux-image-4.19.0-5-marvell: Kernel fails to parse mtdparts arg in cmdline. Impacts usage of fw_setenv on plug devices to config uboot. Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2019-08-05 18:50 +0200
    Bug#933971: linux-image-4.19.0-5-marvell: Kernel fails to parse mtdparts arg in cmdline. Impacts usage of fw_setenv on plug devices to config uboot. "Evrard, Benjamin" <benjamin.evrard@adelpha.be> - 2019-08-05 20:40 +0200
      Bug#933971: linux-image-4.19.0-5-marvell: Kernel fails to parse mtdparts arg in cmdline. Impacts usage of fw_setenv on plug devices to config uboot. Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2019-08-05 20:40 +0200

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