[PATCH] Fix 100% initramfs bloat in 2.6.17 versus 2.6.16

From: Nix
Date: Tue Jun 20 2006 - 19:14:03 EST


When I built 2.6.17 for the first time I was a little surprised to see
my kernel putting on >500Kb in weight.

It didn't take long to work out that this was because my initramfs's
contents were being included twice in the cpio image.

A make V=1 makes the problem obvious:

/bin/sh /usr/packages/linux/versions/i686-loki/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh -l "usr/initramfs" > usr/.initramfs_data.cpio.gz.d
/bin/sh /usr/packages/linux/versions/i686-loki/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh -o usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz -u 0 -g 0 "usr/initramfs" "usr/initramfs"

Note that doubling-up of the "usr/initramfs", which leads to
gen_initramfs_list.sh dumping the thing into the cpio archive twice.

The cause is an obvious pasto, fixed thusly:

Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock <nix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff -durN linux-orig/usr/Makefile linux/usr/Makefile
--- linux-orig/usr/Makefile 2006-06-21 00:07:10.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/usr/Makefile 2006-06-21 00:09:29.000000000 +0100
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
endif

quiet_cmd_initfs = GEN $@
- cmd_initfs = $(initramfs) -o $@ $(ramfs-args) $(ramfs-input)
+ cmd_initfs = $(initramfs) -o $@ $(ramfs-args)

targets := initramfs_data.cpio.gz
$(deps_initramfs): klibcdirs

--
`NB: Anyone suggesting that we should say "Tibibytes" instead of
Terabytes there will be hunted down and brutally slain.
That is all.' --- Matthew Wilcox
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