Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756520AbZCANQ6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Mar 2009 08:16:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753065AbZCANQs (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Mar 2009 08:16:48 -0500 Received: from crmm.lgl.lu ([158.64.72.228]:52578 "EHLO lll.lu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752662AbZCANQs (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Mar 2009 08:16:48 -0500 Message-ID: <49AA8AA9.7080200@knaff.lu> Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:16:25 +0100 From: Alain Knaff User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar CC: Jan Engelhardt , the arch/x86 maintainers , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: tip: bzip2/lzma now in tip:x86/setup-lzma References: <200901042146.n04LkHgP005837@hitchhiker.hitchhiker.org.lu.hitchhiker.org.lu> <4961415C.1050708@zytor.com> <49614243.70102@knaff.lu> <496142E4.8040308@zytor.com> <49614491.7020903@knaff.lu> <49614D1F.8020900@zytor.com> <499B267E.2090509@zytor.com> <20090217220825.GA24337@elte.hu> <20090217233708.GA10756@elte.hu> <499B5BCA.8000905@zytor.com> <499BBD62.5090506@knaff.lu> <499DBCDD.90806@knaff.lu> In-Reply-To: <499DBCDD.90806@knaff.lu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1253 Lines: 39 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 -- 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/