[PATCH] initramfs: handle trailing junk after valid image

Sergei Shtylyov sshtylyov at mvista.com
Mon Aug 6 15:05:07 EDT 2012


Hello.

On 08/06/2012 01:32 PM, Ben Peddell wrote:

> The initramfs handling since commit df37bd15 has been rejecting

   Please also specify the summary of that commit in parens.

> valid images that have garbage after them.  For example, on an
> architecture where the initramfs address and size are specified
> as a kernel parameter (specifically unicore32 and arm), specifying
> e.g. initrd=0x01000000,4M will not work unless the image is padded
> with nulls to 4MiB.  This is unlikely to occur if the user is using
> this parameter to work around a bug in the bootloader.

   You didn't sign off the patchs, so it can't br applied.

WBR, Sergei





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