Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/92] 4.4.206-stable review

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-12T09:37:22Z

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 04:19:00PM -0700, shuah wrote:
> On 12/4/19 10:49 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.206 release.
> > There are 92 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.
> >
> > Responses should be made by Fri, 06 Dec 2019 17:42:37 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
> > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.206-rc1.gz
> > or in the git tree and branch at:
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.4.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
> >
>
> I know this is way late. I managed to boot 4.4.206 finally on my test
> system running Ubuntu 19.10.
>
> It turns out, Ubuntu 19.10 defaults to LZ4 compression.
>
> /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
> COMPRESS=lz4
>
> Enabling the following worked for me.
>
> CONFIG_RD_LZ4=y
> CONFIG_SQUASHFS_LZ4=y
> CONFIG_LZ4_DECOMPRESS=y
> CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_LZ4=y
>
> Stable release older than 4.19 will require the above change.

Ah, thanks for figuring this out. Or you can run without an initramfs :)

greg k-h