Re: [PATCH 2/2] Export initial ramdisk compression config

2013-10-10 Thread P J P
Hello Andrew, +-- On Wed, 9 Oct 2013, Andrew Morton wrote --+ | It would be better to make the change in one place, rather than for | each architecture. That would appear to involve moving a hunk from | arch/x86/Makefile into init/Makefile, or perhaps ./Makefile. Please see this revised vers

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Export initial ramdisk compression config

2013-10-10 Thread P J P
Hi, +-- On Wed, 9 Oct 2013, Andrew Morton wrote --+ | It would be better to make the change in one place, rather than for | each architecture. That would appear to involve moving a hunk from | arch/x86/Makefile into init/Makefile, or perhaps ./Makefile. Please find attached herein, an update

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Export initial ramdisk compression config

2013-10-10 Thread P J P
Hello Andrew, +-- On Wed, 9 Oct 2013, Andrew Morton wrote --+ | It would be better to make the change in one place, rather than for each | architecture. That would appear to involve moving a hunk from | arch/x86/Makefile into init/Makefile, or perhaps ./Makefile. Right, I was trying to fi

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Export initial ramdisk compression config

2013-10-09 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 01:11:54 +0530 (IST) P J P wrote: > | A few things... > | - Why is it specific to x86? Other architcetures use initramfs? > > No, it is not specific to x86, most likely all architecturess' Makefile > would need similar patch. But I haven't looked into those yet. It would

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Export initial ramdisk compression config

2013-10-05 Thread P J P
Hello Andrew, Just to check, did you have a chance to review it further? Are you waiting on me for something? -- Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Security Response Team DB7A 84C5 D3F9 7CD1 B5EB C939 D048 7860 3655 602B -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Export initial ramdisk compression config

2013-09-30 Thread P J P
Hello Andrew, I was wondering if you had a chance to review this patch further? Should I send similar patches for other architectures too? As in you aren't waiting on me for that, are you? Thank you. -- Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Security Response Team DB7A 84C5 D3F9 7CD1 B5EB C939 D048 7860

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Export initial ramdisk compression config

2013-09-26 Thread P J P
+-- On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Rob Landley wrote --+ | Ah, so it's an out of tree bespoke Red Hat tool. No wonder I couldn't find it. It is not Red Hat tool. | You're reimplemented the posix "pax" command? Ummn, not sure. Didn't see anything about 'pax'. | Is this what you're currently doing, or

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Export initial ramdisk compression config

2013-09-25 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/24/2013 02:41:54 PM, P J P wrote: Hello Andrew, Thank you so much for reviewing these patches. +-- On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, Andrew Morton wrote --+ | It's a bit confusing whether all this appiles to initrd, to initramfs | or to both. Can you please clarify all this and be sure that it's

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Export initial ramdisk compression config

2013-09-24 Thread P J P
Hello Andrew, Thank you so much for reviewing these patches. +-- On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, Andrew Morton wrote --+ | It's a bit confusing whether all this appiles to initrd, to initramfs | or to both. Can you please clarify all this and be sure that it's all | consistent? IIUC, we no longer use

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Export initial ramdisk compression config

2013-09-23 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 14:49:05 +0530 (IST) P J P wrote: > Make menuconfig allows one to choose compression format of an > initial ramdisk image. But this choice does not result in duly > compressed ramdisk image. Because - $ make install - does not > pass on the selected compression choice to the d

[PATCH 2/2] Export initial ramdisk compression config

2013-09-15 Thread P J P
on Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: P J P Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 13:37:43 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Export initial ramdisk compression config option Make menuconfig allows one to choose compression format of an initial ramdisk image. But this choice does not result in duly compressed ramdisk image