Re: Broken initrd compression settings in 3.13

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Dec 20 2013 - 22:22:48 EST


On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> But, what's the point of setting INITRD_COMPRESS-y at all if you're not
> going to export INITRD_COMPRESS? Would it be better to just remove that
> entire block in the Makefile (i.e. just revert PJP's patch?)

I ended up committing the minimal change that I was testing, leaving
the core code in, just disabling it so that everything works for me on
F20.

I may happen to think that the kernel shouldn't try to pick the
format, but I'm willing to leave the door open for somebody arguing
for that approach.

Linus
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