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Date:	Thu, 2 Dec 2010 14:30:03 +0100
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Thomas Chou <thomas@...ron.com.tw>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, nios2-dev@...c.et.ntust.edu.tw
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gen_init_cpio: remove leading `/' from file names

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:52:51AM +0800, Thomas Chou wrote:
> Hi Andrew and Michal,
> 
> On 10/06/2010 10:51 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 03:13, Thomas Chou wrote:
> >>When we extracted the generated cpio archive using "cpio -id" command,
> >>it complained,
> >>
> >>cpio: Removing leading `/' from member names
> >>var/run
> >>cpio: Removing leading `/' from member names
> >>var/lib
> >>cpio: Removing leading `/' from member names
> >>var/lib/misc
> >>
> >>It is worse with the latest "cpio" or "pax", which tries to overwrite
> >>the host file system with the leading '/'.
> >
> >seems to work as intended on Blackfin systems, and i cant see any
> >reason to require the leading slash, so:
> >Acked-by: Mike Frysinger<vapier@...too.org>
> >-mike
> >
> >
> 
> Would you please review this patch? It is not clear as who should
> handle this with the MAINTAINERS.

Applied to kbuild-2.6.git#kbuild, thanks a lot.

Michal
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