On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 03:26:05PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to: <[email protected]>
> By author: Russell King <[email protected]>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > All these are to do with decompressing a compressed kernel. If they
> > fail, halting is perfectly reasonable because we probably don't have
> > an executable kernel. Your arguments are fine for these. But, that's
> > not the full story - there are two more places where this code is
> > used:
> >
> > init/do_mounts_rd.c:#include "../lib/inflate.c"
> > init/initramfs.c:#include "../lib/inflate.c"
> >
> > for these your arguments that halting is fine is _NOT_ correct nor is it
> > desirable. The first of these is the cause of the problems both myself
> > and others saw, as detailed in the URL I posted previously in this thread.
> > Did you read that post?
> >
>
> These probably should use lib/zlib instead...
That's a reasonable suggestion. I have an eventual goal of getting
down to only one (cleaned up) zlib instance in the kernel and I'm
somewhat more appalled by the lib/zlib/inflate code so I haven't gone
that route.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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