[v2] arm64: Rename to KERNEL_IMAGE_COMPRESSED_INSTALL kconfig for compressed kernel image

Sedat Dilek sedat.dilek at gmail.com
Fri Jul 26 13:54:06 PDT 2024


On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 10:42 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 at 12:51, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The COMPRESSED_INSTALL does not sound very meaningful.
>
> Why do you care? The question looks like this:
>
>    Install compressed image by default (COMPRESSED_INSTALL) [N/y/?] (NEW)
>
> which actually fits on a line and makes perfect sense.
>
> Your patch seems to only make things worse for no real gain.
>

Yes, the new kconfig is longer - not ideal.

And when you check a diff of two of your ARM64 .config?
What says COMPRESSED_INSTALL to other than the author w/o context :-)?

You are right, why should I care - I have no ARM54 hardware.

-Sedat.



-Sedat-



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