From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: P J P <ppandit@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Fix NULL pointer dereference while loading initramfs
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 20:38:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1379986687.1974.63@driftwood> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130923124110.9b8aebd78c2b602255f1dc1f@linux-foundation.org> (from akpm@linux-foundation.org on Mon Sep 23 14:41:10 2013)
On 09/23/2013 02:41:10 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 14:33:53 +0530 (IST) P J P <ppandit@redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Make menuconfig allows one to choose compression format of an
> > initial ramdisk image. But this choice does not result in duly
> > compressed initial ramdisk image. Because - $ make install - does
> > not pass on the selected compression choice to the dracut(8) tool,
> > which creates the initramfs file. dracut(8) generates the image
> > with the default compression, ie. gzip(1).
I've been building kernels, including with initramfs, and I don't have
dracut(8) installed? In today's git:
$ find . -type f | xargs grep -i dracut
./tools/testing/ktest/sample.conf:#POST_INSTALL = ssh user@target
/sbin/dracut -f /boot/initramfs-test.img $KERNEL_VERSION
./tools/testing/ktest/examples/kvm.conf:# that uses dracut for its
initfs. The POST_INSTALL will be executed
./tools/testing/ktest/examples/kvm.conf:POST_INSTALL = ${SSH}
/sbin/dracut -f /boot/initramfs-test.img $KERNEL_VERSION
./Documentation/ABI/testing/evm:
Documentation/keys-trusted-encrypted.txt. (A sample dracut
> - Is anyone working on fixing up Kconfig/dracut(8) so the correct
> decompression method is used?
I've been messing with this area and maight be interested if I had any
idea what this guy was talking about?
Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-24 1:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-15 9:03 [PATCH 1/2] Fix NULL pointer dereference while loading initramfs P J P
2013-09-23 19:41 ` Andrew Morton
2013-09-24 1:38 ` Rob Landley [this message]
2013-09-24 19:01 ` P J P
2013-09-24 18:45 ` P J P
2013-09-30 21:43 ` P J P
2013-10-05 20:42 ` P J P
2013-10-05 21:28 ` Andrew Morton
2013-10-06 8:09 ` P J P
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