On Sun, 15 Dec 2024, Mohammed Anees wrote: > > It would seem Mohammed cared enough to write the patch, but not reply > > to you with further clarification on why it needed... > > I thought I had already replied to the concern, but it seems > the message didn’t get sent, apologies for that oversight! > College academics kept me tied up, and I lost track of this, > apologies once again. > > > BUT, in this instance it follows that: if lvm2 is allowing weird names > > which require escacped characters _and_ dm-init is used then dm-init > > needs to support handling them (dm-init is all about _not_ using > > normal initramfs with lvm2 in all its glory). > > I completely agree with your point and am more than happy to > provide further details or make any additional updates to > the patch if needed, please let me know if anything else if needed. > Thank you for your time. > > Regards > Mohammed Anees Hi I don't want to bloat the code with the logic that no one uses. I would only accept the patch if there were some real scenario where you need to use escaped characters in device names or table parameters. Mikulas
