From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751236Ab0JRBmW (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:42:22 -0400 Received: from xenotime.net ([72.52.115.56]:55760 "HELO xenotime.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750801Ab0JRBmV (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:42:21 -0400 Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:42:13 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: Alex Elsayed Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: scripts/extract-ikconfig only works on uncompressed and CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP kernels Message-Id: <20101017184213.1e63eae6.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.16.6; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:48:46 +0000 (UTC) Alex Elsayed wrote: > I have a kernel that was compiled with LZMA compression (CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA). I > wish to extract the .config from it without running it, but the script to do so > does not support such kernels. How could I go about fixing this, so that the > script supports other compression modes than just gzip? Please test the patch from Dick Streefland at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19852 and report how it works for you. thanks, --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***