Re: [stable] [PATCH 21/25] kbuild: Fix 100% initramfs bloat in 2.6.17 versus 2.6.16

Nix
2006-06-29T21:45:44Z

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Chris Wright moaned:
> * Chris Wright (chrisw@sous-sol.org) wrote:
>> -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
>> ------------------
>> From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
>>
>> When I built 2.6.17 for the first time I was a little surprised to see
>> my kernel putting on >500Kb in weight.
>>
>> It didn't take long to work out that this was because my initramfs's
>> contents were being included twice in the cpio image.
>
> Sam accidentally sent the wrong patch, here's variant that went into
> Linus' tree.

A difference that makes no difference is no difference :)

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