Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 Jun 2006 20:22:39 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [klibc 12/43] Enable CONFIG_KLIBC_ZLIB (now required to build kinit) |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> After removing the private copy of zlib in kinit, we need >> CONFIG_KLIBC_ZLIB in order to build klibc. zlib is required in order >> to decompress classical ramdisks. >> >> In the future this should maybe be made conditional on >> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM. > >> +config KLIBC_ZLIB >> + bool >> + default y > > > Dumb question, then: why not make it conditional on rd now? >
Mostly because I haven't yet broken down kinit in configurable chunks; it's somewhat messy to do as long as I'm maintaining a standalone distribution as well as the out-of-mainline kernel tree. Not difficult by any means, but I've wanted to avoid combinatorics and code churn as long as I have a limited testing base (although -mm has vastly increased it.)
It's also unclear to me if it's the right thing to omit it from the library, ever; the only users that are affected are the ones that are using the shared klibc and don't have any use of zlib.
-hpa
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