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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Etienne Lorrain <etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] boot with Gujin: add script/{gzcopy.c,gzparam.c} to generate linux.kgz file format
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:02:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060105160244.5e9df486.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060105230312.32885.qmail@web26909.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Etienne Lorrain <etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
> So this patch create a file script/gzcopy.c and Makefile rules to produce
>  script/gzcopy which can be use to view, change (set/append/prepend) comment
>  to GZIP files. Type "./script/gzcopy --help" for a list of switches.
>  This first file (and only this one) is released under a BSD license to
>  enable anybody else to add it in a "GZIP distribution" if needed,
>  it follow special rules for indentation and a special way to define
>  strings so that localisation should be simpler.
> 
>   This patch also contains the simple script/gzparam.c file and its
>  Makefile rules - that is a simple standalone program to display a text
>  line on stdout containing the base pattern to generate the GZIP comment
>  itself for this configured kernel.

Those sound like things which should be distributed in the gzip package,
not in the kernel source tree?

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-06  0:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-05 23:03 Etienne Lorrain
2006-01-06  0:02 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-01-06 11:56   ` Etienne Lorrain

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