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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 18:48:53 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] [git commit master 1/1] initramfs: update help text
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Hi,

On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 14:21:29 +0000 (UTC)
Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:

> > commit: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=c2a44f158eedf40be3ab3bc3c76f61fe032d7b34
> > branch: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=refs/heads/master
> 
> >  comment "initramfs requires a Linux kernel to be built"
> >  	depends on !BR2_LINUX_KERNEL
> 
> Hey, wait a minute.
> 
> I use this option and I don't use Buildroot to build my kernel.
> 
> Can somebody explain why this functionality is being removed?

How are you using this functionality without using Buildroot to build
your kernel ? Are you pointing your kernel configuration to the
rootfs.initramfs file generated by Buildroot ?

Thomas
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