linux-kernel - Re: "make oldconfig" problem

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Date:	Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:35:14 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@...il.com>
CC:	Jike Song <albcamus@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: "make oldconfig" problem

Peter Teoh wrote:
>>>
>> Seems to be caused by
>> 40297927575a50b1d0d308d735c445924d33fba6("bzip2/lzma: don't ask for
>> compression mode for the default initramfs").
>>
>> I get no errors with that commit reverted.
> 
> Thank you, will try that.
> 

Linus complained about a choice that didn't make sense for most users. 
Unfortunately Kconfig doesn't seem to have a sane block to deal with 
having alternatives to conditionalized choice blocks.

Fortunately, CONFIG_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_NONE doesn't actually *do* 
anything, so this is probably the preferred hack.

Could you try this out?  If it works as expected for you as well as me, 
I'll push it to Linus.

	-hpa

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