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From: "Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Alex Elsayed <eternaleye@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: scripts/extract-ikconfig only works on uncompressed and CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP kernels
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:43:35 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101018024335.GB5281@cr0.nay.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20101018T024559-314@post.gmane.org>

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:48:46AM +0000, Alex Elsayed wrote:
>I have a kernel that was compiled with LZMA compression (CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA). I
>wish to extract the .config from it without running it, but the script to do so
>does not support such kernels. How could I go about fixing this, so that the
>script supports other compression modes than just gzip?
>

I am not surprised at all, that program looks for gzip signature,
which is gzip only apparently. :)

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-18  2:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-18  0:48 scripts/extract-ikconfig only works on uncompressed and CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP kernels Alex Elsayed
2010-10-18  1:42 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-10-18  1:48   ` Alex Elsayed
2010-10-18  1:45 ` Alex Elsayed
2010-10-18  2:43 ` Américo Wang [this message]

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