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From: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tip: bzip2/lzma now in tip:x86/setup-lzma
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:16:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49AA8AA9.7080200@knaff.lu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <499DBCDD.90806@knaff.lu>

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?

Btw, when will the next merge-window be, so that I can plan ahead to be
available enough?

Thanks,

Alain


  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-01 13:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-04 21:46 update8 [PATCH 2/5] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and initrds Alain Knaff
2009-01-04 23:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-04 23:12   ` Alain Knaff
2009-01-04 23:14     ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-04 23:21       ` Alain Knaff
2009-01-04 23:58         ` tip: bzip2/lzma now in tip:x86/setup-lzma H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-05  3:03           ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-05  5:09             ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-05  5:42               ` Sam Ravnborg
     [not found]           ` <49615136.9080900@knaff.lu>
     [not found]             ` <4961580A.1020301@zytor.com>
     [not found]               ` <4961A816.40302@knaff.lu>
     [not found]                 ` <4961A997.10108@zytor.com>
     [not found]                   ` <4961ADC5.6030108@knaff.lu>
     [not found]                     ` <49622DE9.2010200@zytor.com>
     [not found]                       ` <496240DF.2010102@knaff.lu>
     [not found]                         ` <49624F6C.8010103@zytor.com>
     [not found]                           ` <4962522F.20804@knaff.lu>
     [not found]                             ` <496255B0.1050208@zytor.com>
2009-01-05 18:57                               ` Alain Knaff
2009-01-05 19:36                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-05 22:07                                   ` Alain Knaff
2009-01-05 22:11                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-05 22:12                                       ` Alain Knaff
2009-01-05 22:59                                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-06  7:09                                           ` Alain Knaff
2009-01-06  7:21                                             ` Willy Tarreau
2009-01-06  7:22                                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-06  7:30                                               ` Alain Knaff
2009-01-06 21:57                                           ` [bzip2/lzma] fix for built-in initramfs issue Alain Knaff
2009-01-06 22:48                                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-06 22:50                                               ` Alain Knaff
2009-01-06 22:58                                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-06 22:58                                                   ` Alain Knaff
2009-01-06  7:18                                       ` tip: bzip2/lzma now in tip:x86/setup-lzma Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-01-06  7:24                                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-06  7:53                                           ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-01-06  8:27                                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-17 21:03           ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-02-17 21:05             ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-17 22:08               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-17 23:37                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-18  0:52                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-18  7:48                     ` Alain Knaff
2009-02-18  9:20                       ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-02-18  9:40                         ` Alain Knaff
2009-02-18 10:29                           ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-02-18 19:53                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-19  6:14                             ` Alain Knaff
2009-02-19 14:46                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-19 15:41                                 ` Alain Knaff
2009-02-19 18:03                                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-18 19:52                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-18 21:09                         ` Willy Tarreau
2009-02-19 20:11                       ` Alain Knaff
2009-03-01 13:16                         ` Alain Knaff [this message]
2009-03-01 19:27                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-02  9:53                           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-02  9:54                             ` Alain Knaff
2009-03-02 10:22                               ` Ingo Molnar

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