From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: P J P <ppandit@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] Read CONFIG_RD_ variables for initramfs compression
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:15:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131029151507.8f63dad8e7525e33431d9596@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.03.1310152002200.7552@erqung.pbz>
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:25:57 +0530 (IST) P J P <ppandit@redhat.com> wrote:
> When expert configuration option(CONFIG_EXPERT) is enabled,
> menuconfig offers a choice of compression algorithm to compress
> initial ramfs image; This choice is stored into CONFIG_RD_*
> variables. But usr/Makefile uses earlier INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_*
> macros to build initial ramfs file. Since none of them is defined,
> resulting 'initramfs_data.cpio' file remains un-compressed.
>
> This patch updates the Makefile to use CONFIG_RD_* variables and
> adds support for LZ4 compression algorithm.
This patch breaks my x86_64 allmodconfig build, because I don't have
the lz4 executable installed:
/usr/src/25/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh: line 307: lz4: command not found
make[1]: *** [usr/initramfs_data.cpio.lz4] Error 1
This obviously isn't acceptable!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-29 22:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-15 14:55 P J P
2013-10-29 22:15 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2013-10-30 10:27 ` P J P
2013-10-30 22:05 ` Andrew Morton
2013-10-31 7:05 ` P J P
2013-12-11 15:46 ` Simon Guinot
2013-12-12 7:21 ` P J P
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