Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:32:32 +0000
From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] inflate pt1: clean up input logic
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On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 02:18:44AM +0100, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 10:57:49PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > The email:
> > 
> >   http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0312.2/1024.html
> > 
> > contains a full and clear explaination of the situation.  The second
> > paragraph of that email is key to understanding the problem and makes
> > it absolutely clear what is trying to be decompressed as the initrd
> > (the corrupted compressed piggy).
> 
> FWIW, I didn't it either. "Work around broken boot firmware which passes
> invalid initrd to kernel" would have been a simpler description.

Sigh, I'm sick of this crap.  I'm not going to debate it any further.

> I agree that it would be nice if inflate.c would fail gracefully
> instead of halting,

IT _DOES_ FAIL GRACEFULLY TODAY.  WITH MATT'S PATCHES, IT _DOESN'T_.
THAT'S A REGRESSION.  WHAT IS IT ABOUT THAT WHICH PEOPLE DON'T
UNDERSTAND?  DO I HAVE TO SPELL IT OUT IN ONE SYLLABLE WORDS?

> but why can't you just use CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=n?

Because you might want to use an initrd for real (for installation
purposes) and therefore distributions (eg Debian) want it turned on?

Okay, this does it - I'm ignoring further discussion on this stupid
idiotic topic which is soo bloody difficult for others to understand.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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