Re: [PATCH 3/7] inflate pt1: clean up input logic

On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 10:57:49PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 04:37:37PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 09:58:50PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
I'm sorry, I just do not see why you're being soo bloody difficult
over this.

Because it's taken this long to get close to an explanation of what
the problem is.

$#%@%#$%#@!!! I really think you're intentionally trying to wind me up
through this whole thread.

The email:

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0312.2/1024.html

contains a full and clear explaination of the situation. The second
paragraph of that email is key to understanding the problem and makes
it absolutely clear what is trying to be decompressed as the initrd
(the corrupted compressed piggy).

FWIW, I didn't it either. "Work around broken boot firmware which passes
invalid initrd to kernel" would have been a simpler description.

I agree that it would be nice if inflate.c would fail gracefully
instead of halting, but why can't you just use CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=n?


Johannes
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