linux-kernel - Re: tip: bzip2/lzma now in tip:x86/setup-lzma

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Date:	Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:41:26 +0100
From:	Alain Knaff <alain@...ff.lu>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
CC:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tip: bzip2/lzma now in tip:x86/setup-lzma

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Alain Knaff wrote:
>> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>> Even if it is true in general, I would not remove CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE
>> Hmmm, but now that I think of it, maybe the CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE
>> setting could be used to decide whether to compress initramfs.
>>
>> If empty => do not compress builtin initramfs. It's only 950 bytes, and
>> will be compressed along with the kernel anyways.
>>
>> If not empty => use an additional config setting (let's call it
>> CONFIG_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION) to decide which compressor to use.
>>
> 
> No, that's at least potentially very wrong.  Let's not go down that rathole.
> 
> 	-hpa
> 

Could you please elaborate why you consider this so wrong?

Regards,

Alain

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