linux-kernel - Re: "make oldconfig" problem

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Message-ID: <804dabb00903312335t660536a1pc029988c1f71f63a@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 1 Apr 2009 14:35:30 +0800
From:	Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@...il.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Jike Song <albcamus@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: "make oldconfig" problem

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:35 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>

Yes, it worked for me, compiled fine and well.   Thanks.


-- 
Regards,
Peter Teoh
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