Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753084AbZAFI1g (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 03:27:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750978AbZAFI12 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 03:27:28 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:34579 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751063AbZAFI11 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 03:27:27 -0500 Message-ID: <496315E3.8050906@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:27:15 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput CC: Alain Knaff , the arch/x86 maintainers , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: tip: bzip2/lzma now in tip:x86/setup-lzma References: <200901042146.n04LkHgP005837@hitchhiker.hitchhiker.org.lu.hitchhiker.org.lu> <49624F6C.8010103@zytor.com> <4962522F.20804@knaff.lu> <496255B0.1050208@zytor.com> <4962580B.2080806@knaff.lu> <4962612C.8090405@zytor.com> <496284A2.9070003@knaff.lu> <4962858F.20207@zytor.com> <3f9a31f40901052318s7a5a421apa5c6ed8804aeb955@mail.gmail.com> <49630715.1050204@zytor.com> <3f9a31f40901052353p4147ae8dr49187088952a5c56@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3f9a31f40901052353p4147ae8dr49187088952a5c56@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1114 Lines: 29 Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: >>> >>> Can we check in kernel config that lzma is installed on machine or not. >> For building the default initramfs, we'd do it in a script. I don't think >> there is any way to check the system for configuration options, and I would >> argue that it *shouldn't* be, because it creates a >> silent failure condition. > > Sorry, I was talking about kernel with CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA=y > > On some machines where /usr/bin/lzma was not installed I was getting > errors during kernel compilation. So I installed lzma package and then > kernel compiled for me on that machine. > Right, well, that's to be expected. (There was a bug earlier on which would cause it to "complete" incorrectly... not good for obvious reasons.) -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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/