[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#639876: Bug#639876: cryptsetup: add usb modules to initramfs

[Jonas Meurer]

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reassign 639876 initramfs-tools
thanks

Hey Yves-Alexis,

Am 31.08.2011 11:20, schrieb Yves-Alexis Perez:
> this is a wishlist bug but it might be upgraded to minor.
> 
> In some specific situations, people won't be able to boot their
> machine:
> 
> * they use encrypted root * they use a passphrase * they use a usb
> keyboard * they use MODULES=dep in initramfs.conf
> 
> What happens in that, with MODULE=dep, the usb modules (mainly
> usbhid and uhci_hcd or similar) won't be added to initramfs, so
> people won't be able to type their password.
> 
> It's not too much of a big deal since:
> 
> * people using encrypted root are (I guess) mostly on laptops,
> where the keyboard is still often using ps/2 or similar (at least
> it is on thinkpads :) * the default is MODULES=most
> 
> But it'd still be nice if switching to MODULES=dep on those boxes
> would still work. I'm not too sure if there's a way to detect how
> the keyboard is plugged and add usb modules if needed. Adding them
> unconditionnally might now be possible either.

I see the point. But in my eyes it's not the job of cryptsetup to make
sure that the keyboard works in initramfs. To me this is a bug in
initramfs-tools, which should include usb modules for MODULES=dep
itself, as a working keyboard is required for the initramfs emergency
shell even without disk encryption.

Thus I'm reassigning the bug to initramfs-tools.

Greetings,
 jonas
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