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Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Move tool for generating initramfs cpio to scripts/ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:54:16 +0300 Message-ID: <20260310015416.3034078-1-safinaskar@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.47.3 In-Reply-To: <20260309-move-gen_init_cpio-to-scripts-v1-0-0c5059b1ec5b@kernel.org> References: <20260309-move-gen_init_cpio-to-scripts-v1-0-0c5059b1ec5b@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I like this patchset. Rob (CC'd), does this solve your problem? Also, in [1] I said: > command > "make usr/gen_init_cpio" doesn't work in clean kernel tree even if > config exists (I checked this) Now I tested this again, and I see that "make usr/gen_init_cpio" indeed doesn't work in current mainline in that scenario, but "cd usr; make gen_init_cpio" works (how I supposed to know this?). So, problems in [1] are not as big as I thought. You don't need to build whole kernel two times in that scenario. But still I like this your new patchset. Also, I think that top-level "usr" directory exists as a placeholder for klibc-init project (this is merely my hypothesis, I don't know for sure). I. e. it was supposed to contain source for userspace init program, which was supposed to be put into default initramfs. But klibc-init project, unfortunately, seems to fail. So, I think we should remove whole top level "usr" directory and move its contents to other places. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260220191150.244006-1-safinaskar@gmail.com -- Askar Safin