From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752311AbWAFADF (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:03:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752312AbWAFADE (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:03:04 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:44011 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752308AbWAFAC6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:02:58 -0500 Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:02:44 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Etienne Lorrain 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 Message-Id: <20060105160244.5e9df486.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060105230312.32885.qmail@web26909.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <20060105230312.32885.qmail@web26909.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Etienne Lorrain 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?