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Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:51:34 +0500
From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>
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To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: zcat: stdin: decompression OK
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Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:53:25PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
>> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:47:59 +0500 Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, I lost my .config from the old kernel, so I attempted the
>>> following:
>>>
>>> cd scripts
>>> make binoffset
>>> cd ..
>>> scripts/extract-ikconfig /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-rc3-mm1-home >.config
>>>
>>> This results in:
>>>
>>> zcat: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored
>> No other output?  what $ARCH?
>> What did the .config file contain?  was it correct?
>> so is the only problem the zcat warning message?
>>
>> I tested extract-ikconfig several times without errors (on 2.6.16-rc4-mm1).
> 
> Since I can reproduce it, Randy, what version do you use? 1.3.5-r8 here
> from Gentoo.
> 
> At least, we can trivially shut it up.

I think this would be wrong, because I am able to extract the config 
without warnings from 2.6.15-mm2 or even vanilla 2.6.16-rc4, but not 
vmlinuz-2.6.16-rc3-mm1. So something changed in -mm between 2.6.15-mm2 
and 2.6.16-rc3-mm1 in the way how bzImages are produced.

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov
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