[PATCH v3 -next 5/5] Kconfig: Make x86 and arm kernels default to the LZ4-compressed

Borislav Petkov bp at alien8.de
Tue Mar 5 06:58:07 EST 2013


On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 08:47:36PM +0900, Kyungsik Lee wrote:
> This patch makes x86 and arm kernels default to the LZ4-compressed
> to test new LZ4 code in the linux-next. This is requested by
> Andrew Morton.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee at lge.com>
> ---
>  init/Kconfig | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> index fc8eb1f..de3cb00 100644
> --- a/init/Kconfig
> +++ b/init/Kconfig
> @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
>  
>  choice
>  	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
> -	default KERNEL_GZIP
> +	default KERNEL_LZ4

Do I understand it correctly that when this thing gets committed, kernel
builds on all systems missing the lz4 tool will fail and everybody
should go running to get it so that everybody can build kernels again?

WTF?

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    Boris.

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