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Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:16:25 +0100 From: Alain Knaff <alain@...ff.lu> To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> CC: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>, the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: tip: bzip2/lzma now in tip:x86/setup-lzma Alain Knaff wrote: > Alain Knaff wrote: >> hmmm, but on a second glance, there seems to be indeed an issue. When >> compiling it a _second time_, compilation will "succeed" but produce a >> bad kernel because the first attempt left an empty >> usr/initramfs_data.cpio.bz2 . >> >> I'll look into it this evening, probably a case of "bad" failure >> recovery in the Makefile. >> > > Took me slightly longer than promised, attached is the patch. > > It changes/fixes three things: > 1. Fix a bug in decompress.c : only scanned until the first > non-configured compressor (with disastrous result if that was gzip) > 2. Fix a bug in gen_initramfs_list.sh : in case of failure, it left > indeed an empty output file behind, messing up the next make. > 3. Make builtin initramfs compression configurable > > Regards, > > Alain > Any comments about this? Ingo, does it solve the issue with randconfig? Btw, when will the next merge-window be, so that I can plan ahead to be available enough? Thanks, Alain -- 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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