Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752866Ab3CEXIt (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Mar 2013 18:08:49 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:60636 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751886Ab3CEXIs (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Mar 2013 18:08:48 -0500 Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 15:08:45 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Florian Fainelli Cc: Kyungsik Lee , Russell King , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, celinux-dev@lists.celinuxforum.org, Nicolas Pitre , David Sterba , Nitin Gupta , Joe Millenbach , Thomas Gleixner , Michal Marek , hyojun.im@lge.com, chan.jeong@lge.com, raphael.andy.lee@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 -next 5/5] Kconfig: Make x86 and arm kernels default to the LZ4-compressed Message-Id: <20130305150845.0d19a2875d39dac5d03b4b62@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <5135DF44.2040806@openwrt.org> References: <1362484056-9778-1-git-send-email-kyungsik.lee@lge.com> <1362484056-9778-6-git-send-email-kyungsik.lee@lge.com> <5135DF44.2040806@openwrt.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0beta5 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1015 Lines: 26 On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:04:20 +0100 Florian Fainelli wrote: > Hello, > > On 03/05/2013 12:47 PM, Kyungsik Lee wrote: > > This patch makes x86 and arm kernels default to the LZ4-compressed > > to test new LZ4 code in the linux-next. This is requested by > > Andrew Morton. > > I do not think making this the default is good idea, because the lz4demo > utility that you need to actually compress the kernel (used in patch 2) > is not installed nor available by default on most systems, while gzip > is. Yes, that's a showstopper even for linux-next. What a shame. It means this code will walk into mainline with practically zero third-party testing. Oh well, the risk is minor. If it breaks, people can switch back to gzip easily enough. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/