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Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:34:14 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru> CC: Alain Knaff <alain@...ff.lu>, Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@...hos.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: 2.6.33-rc1: LZMA kernel fails to decompress On 12/27/2009 12:19 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: > > What I think should be done here is to revert my patch (that replaces > /bin/echo with printf, so that /bin/echo will be used) and test the > real solution, which is to stop doing all this hackery altogether, > and calculate the size the right way instead. Sam already posted a > possible solution, and it seems to be correct. > Yes, but it moves the calculation from generic to x86-specific code, which makes it problematic. I never figured out how to make a generic rule in Kbuild (unlike in standard GNU make) depend on a helper application, but doing a helper application for this is probably the sane thing. Either this, or use Perl, which handles this kind of crap sanely. I'm really less than half joking. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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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