linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] initramfs: print error and shell out for unsupported content

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Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:25:57 +0100
From:	Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de>
To:	Levente Kurusa <levex@...ux.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] initramfs: print error and shell out for unsupported
 content

Am 26.03.2014 23:37, schrieb Alexander Holler:
> Am 26.03.2014 22:55, schrieb Alexander Holler:
>> Am 26.03.2014 22:38, schrieb Levente Kurusa:

>>> This is walkable but probably not worth the effort. Besides, why would
>>> anyone want to put spaces, colons and arbitrary characters to filenames
>>> in the initramfs?
>
> I've already suggest an example for that. If you have a machine with
> bluetooth, look at /var/lib/bluetooth and you will discover directories
> with colons. So, guess what happens if you want to have (preset)
> link-keys in an initramfs to avoid an otherwise necessary pairing.
>
> And spaces in filenames are used by a lot of people for various reasons.
> And you might wonder, but there exists software one might want to use in
> an initramfs which needs some file(s) with an hardcoded name wich
> contains spaces.

Just that this problem exists at least since the dawn of git doesn't 
mean nobody has suffert through it.

E.g. I know the bug with colons since several years, but just feared to 
post a simple patch (for legitimate reasons as this thread shows).

Alexander Holler

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