Re: [PATCH 1/6] lib/decompress_*: only include if STATIC is not defined

Andrew Morton
2009-08-04T22:56:03Z

On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 16:58:16 +0200
Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> wrote:

> These includes were added by 079effb6933f34b9b1b67b08bd4fd7fb672d16ef to
> fix the build when using kmemtrace. However this is not necessary when
> used to create a compressed kernel, and actually creates issues (brings
> a lot of things unavailable in the decompression environment), so don't
> include it if STATIC is defined.
>

The description "actually creates issues (brings a lot of things
unavailable in the decompression environment)" is inadequate. Please
describe te problem this patch fixes more completely so that others
(ie: me) can decide whether this patch is needed in 2.6.32, 2.6.31.
2.6.30, ...

This patch conflicts heavily with

http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/bzip2-lzma-remove-nasty-uncompressed-size-hack-in-pre-boot-environment.patch

What should we do about that?