From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265282AbUENNnb (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 May 2004 09:43:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265281AbUENNnb (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 May 2004 09:43:31 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:57509 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265282AbUENNn2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 May 2004 09:43:28 -0400 Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 14:43:26 +0100 From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk To: Santiago Garcia Mantinan Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: cramfs as initrd still fails in 2.4.27-pre2 [PATCH] Message-ID: <20040514134326.GK17014@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20040514132955.GA6190@man.manty.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040514132955.GA6190@man.manty.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 03:29:55PM +0200, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > In Debian official kernel packages cramfs is being used as the initrd, so I > had a look at Debian's kernel patches and extracted this one that makes > initrd work for me in 2.4.26 and 2.4.27-pre2: Patch in debian kernel package is a mindless crap. cramfs has no business messing with block size (or buffer cache in general, to start with). 2.6 has it fixed the right way, there's a backport to 2.4 and IIRC it was scheduled for inclusion.