From: "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <lkml@metux.net>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] Provide in-kernel headers to make extending kernel easier
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 18:16:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <76db9a89-ae64-5c2b-6f56-3e2b860cbda2@metux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a30yY_1mPcUBxOYOkbFwoeCHbo5EHuWMN4fqKug9DiQDQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 10.04.19 21:19, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> - we use cpio for initramfs because unpacking cpio in C code is
> fairly simple, while unpacking tar is not (see the wikipedia page on tar).
> If we were to unpack it from the kernel, the initramfs code could be
> trivially reused.
What about ar ? ;-)
> - nobody sane uses cpio in user space, since tar is already present
> almost everywhere, while cpio is rather obscure in comparison.
So, rpm doesn't count as "sane" ? :o
--mtx
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-12 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-20 16:31 Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-03-20 16:31 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] Add selftests for module build using in-kernel headers Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-03-20 16:31 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] init/config: Do not select BUILD_BIN2C for IKCONFIG Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-03-20 18:31 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] Provide in-kernel headers to make extending kernel easier Andrew Morton
2019-03-20 19:42 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-08 16:29 ` Olof Johansson
2019-04-08 16:37 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-08 16:53 ` Olof Johansson
2019-04-08 20:36 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-10 15:07 ` Olof Johansson
2019-04-10 15:50 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-10 16:34 ` Olof Johansson
2019-04-10 17:33 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-10 17:35 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-11 3:15 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-04-11 16:30 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-14 19:38 ` Olof Johansson
2019-04-15 9:41 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2019-04-15 13:52 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-15 14:05 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-15 14:41 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-04-16 3:50 ` Kees Cook
2019-04-16 12:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-04-16 12:49 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-04-16 13:04 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-16 13:32 ` Karim Yaghmour
2019-04-16 13:45 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-04-16 14:21 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-16 14:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-04-16 14:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-04-16 16:42 ` Olof Johansson
2019-04-16 16:46 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-04-16 16:57 ` Olof Johansson
2019-04-16 17:22 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-16 17:30 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-04-16 16:47 ` Olof Johansson
2019-04-10 19:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-04-12 16:16 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult [this message]
2019-04-12 17:25 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-04-08 20:52 ` Karim Yaghmour
2019-04-10 15:15 ` Olof Johansson
2019-04-10 15:44 ` Daniel Colascione
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