From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751477Ab0JRCi6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:38:58 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:55823 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750945Ab0JRCi6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:38:58 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=Xu1GiQc3NBcR7ZoBdvG4pvwvFDCaN2lVcEU/BzjiltVvXx9qDwGDLKnx27mPnF2SRR DMm81WARx9OxRu22W1B+34TJoZuRLhexFea7YXU0yFI1vDKF5hEbaZsMI/ODqF4Tg2Oe Rf0Ak7GoaniURVWOuqRnjuSPyNHgjgInzyZVM= Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:43:35 +0800 From: =?utf-8?Q?Am=C3=A9rico?= Wang To: Alex Elsayed Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: scripts/extract-ikconfig only works on uncompressed and CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP kernels Message-ID: <20101018024335.GB5281@cr0.nay.redhat.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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. :)