Re: zcat: stdin: decompression OK

["Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>]

Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:53:25PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:47:59 +0500 Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> > > Unfortunately, I lost my .config from the old kernel, so I attempted the
> > > following:
> > >
> > > cd scripts
> > > make binoffset
> > > cd ..
> > > scripts/extract-ikconfig /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-rc3-mm1-home >.config
> > >
> > > This results in:
> > >
> > > zcat: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored
> > No other output?  what $ARCH?
> > What did the .config file contain?  was it correct?
> > so is the only problem the zcat warning message?
> >
> > I tested extract-ikconfig several times without errors (on 2.6.16-rc4-mm1).
>
> Since I can reproduce it, Randy, what version do you use? 1.3.5-r8 here
> from Gentoo.
>
> At least, we can trivially shut it up.

I think this would be wrong, because I am able to extract the config 
without warnings from 2.6.15-mm2 or even vanilla 2.6.16-rc4, but not 
vmlinuz-2.6.16-rc3-mm1. So something changed in -mm between 2.6.15-mm2 
and 2.6.16-rc3-mm1 in the way how bzImages are produced.

--
Alexander E. Patrakov
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