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

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 02:18:44AM +0100, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 10:57:49PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
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.

Sigh, I'm sick of this crap. I'm not going to debate it any further.

I agree that it would be nice if inflate.c would fail gracefully
instead of halting,

IT _DOES_ FAIL GRACEFULLY TODAY. WITH MATT'S PATCHES, IT _DOESN'T_.
THAT'S A REGRESSION. WHAT IS IT ABOUT THAT WHICH PEOPLE DON'T
UNDERSTAND? DO I HAVE TO SPELL IT OUT IN ONE SYLLABLE WORDS?

but why can't you just use CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=n?

Because you might want to use an initrd for real (for installation
purposes) and therefore distributions (eg Debian) want it turned on?

Okay, this does it - I'm ignoring further discussion on this stupid
idiotic topic which is soo bloody difficult for others to understand.

--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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