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

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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 <[email protected]>

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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