Re: [PATCH 3/7] inflate pt1: clean up input logic

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 10:57:49PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 04:37:37PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 09:58:50PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > > I'm sorry, I just do not see why you're being soo bloody difficult
> > > over this.
> > 
> > Because it's taken this long to get close to an explanation of what
> > the problem is.
> 
> $#%@%#$%#@!!!  I really think you're intentionally trying to wind me up
> through this whole thread.
> 
> The email:
> 
>   http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0312.2/1024.html
> 
> contains a full and clear explaination of the situation.  The second
> paragraph of that email is key to understanding the problem and makes
> it absolutely clear what is trying to be decompressed as the initrd
> (the corrupted compressed piggy).

FWIW, I didn't it either. "Work around broken boot firmware which passes
invalid initrd to kernel" would have been a simpler description.

I agree that it would be nice if inflate.c would fail gracefully
instead of halting, but why can't you just use CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=n?


Johannes