Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Feb 2006 02:18:44 +0100 | From | Johannes Stezenbach <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/7] inflate pt1: clean up input logic |
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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?
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