| To: | Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> |
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| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Probe initrd header only if explicitly specified |
| From: | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> |
| Date: | Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:29:07 +0100 |
| Cc: | linux-mips@linux-mips.org |
| In-reply-to: | <20080826.223457.41872931.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> |
| Original-recipient: | rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org |
| References: | <20080826.223457.41872931.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> |
| Sender: | linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org |
| User-agent: | Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:34:57PM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote: > Currently init_initrd() probes initrd header at the last page of > kernel image, but it is valid only if addinitrd was used. If > addinitrd was not used, the area contains garbage so probing there > might misdetect initrd header (magic number is not strictly robust). > > This patch introduces CONFIG_PROBE_INITRD_HEADER to enable this > probing explicitly. Applied though I think the solution isn't quite the most elegant ... Ralf |
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