Re: tip: bzip2/lzma now in tip:x86/setup-lzma

Ingo Molnar
2009-03-02T09:53:23Z

* Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> wrote:

> Alain Knaff wrote:
> > Alain Knaff wrote:
> >> hmmm, but on a second glance, there seems to be indeed an issue. When
> >> compiling it a _second time_, compilation will "succeed" but produce a
> >> bad kernel because the first attempt left an empty
> >> usr/initramfs_data.cpio.bz2 .
> >>
> >> I'll look into it this evening, probably a case of "bad" failure
> >> recovery in the Makefile.
> >>
> >
> > Took me slightly longer than promised, attached is the patch.
> >
> > It changes/fixes three things:
> > 1. Fix a bug in decompress.c : only scanned until the first
> > non-configured compressor (with disastrous result if that was gzip)
> > 2. Fix a bug in gen_initramfs_list.sh : in case of failure, it left
> > indeed an empty output file behind, messing up the next make.
> > 3. Make builtin initramfs compression configurable
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Alain
> >
>
> Any comments about this? Ingo, does it solve the issue with
> randconfig?

I've reactivated tip:x86/setup-lzma in tip:master and started
testing it with the problem .config, on the problem test-system.
The bug is most likely fixed, so consider it queued up for
2.6.30 unless i report some new issue.

Thanks,

Ingo