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Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 23:25:15 +0100 From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Cc: viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, akpm@...l.org Subject: [patch] Make initramfs printk a warning on incorrect cpio type It turns out that the "-c" option of cpio is highly unportable even between distros let alone unix variants, and may actually make the wrong type of cpio archive. I just wasted quite some time on this, and the kernel can detect this and warn about it (it's __init memory so it gets thrown away and thus there is no runtime overhead) Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com> --- linux-2.6.18/init/initramfs.c.old 2006-11-04 23:18:30.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.18/init/initramfs.c 2006-11-04 23:19:19.000000000 +0100 @@ -182,6 +182,10 @@ static int __init do_collect(void) static int __init do_header(void) { + if (memcmp(collected, "070707", 6)==0) { + error("incorrect cpio method used: use -H newc option"); + return 1; + } if (memcmp(collected, "070701", 6)) { error("no cpio magic"); return 1; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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