linux-kernel - [PATCH] Revert "init/Kconfig: add option to disable kernel compression"

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Message-Id: <1384494227-24029-1-git-send-email-hpa@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Nov 2013 21:43:47 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pavel Roskin <proski@....org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Christian Ruppert <christian.ruppert@...lis.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "init/Kconfig: add option to disable kernel compression"

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>

This reverts commit 69f0554ec261fd686ac7fa1c598cc9eb27b83a80.

This patch breaks randconfig on at least the x86-64 architecture, and
most likely on others.  There is work underway to support uncompressed
kernels in a generic way, but it looks like it will amount to
rewriting the support from scratch; see the LKML thread in the Link:
for info.

Therefore, revert this change and wait for the fix.

Reported-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@....org>
Cc: Christian Ruppert <christian.ruppert@...lis.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131113113418.167b8ffd@IRBT4585
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
---
 init/Kconfig | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 5496f307988e..bc8911fab28e 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
 choice
 	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
 	default KERNEL_GZIP
+	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
 	help
 	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
 	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
@@ -136,13 +137,6 @@ choice
 
 	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
 
-config KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
-	bool "No compression"
-	help
-	  No compression at all. The kernel is huge but the compression and
-	  decompression times are zero.
-	  This is usually not what you want.
-
 config KERNEL_GZIP
 	bool "Gzip"
 	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
-- 
1.8.3.1

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