linux-kernel - Re: scripts/extract-ikconfig only works on uncompressed and CONFIG_KERNEL

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Message-ID: <20101018024335.GB5281@cr0.nay.redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:43:35 +0800
From:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	Alex Elsayed <eternaleye@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: scripts/extract-ikconfig only works on uncompressed and
 CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP kernels

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:48:46AM +0000, Alex Elsayed wrote:
>I have a kernel that was compiled with LZMA compression (CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA). I
>wish to extract the .config from it without running it, but the script to do so
>does not support such kernels. How could I go about fixing this, so that the
>script supports other compression modes than just gzip?
>

I am not surprised at all, that program looks for gzip signature,
which is gzip only apparently. :)
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