On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:04:20 +0100 Florian Fainelli <florian@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > On 03/05/2013 12:47 PM, 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. > > I do not think making this the default is good idea, because the lz4demo > utility that you need to actually compress the kernel (used in patch 2) > is not installed nor available by default on most systems, while gzip > is. Yes, that's a showstopper even for linux-next. What a shame. It means this code will walk into mainline with practically zero third-party testing. Oh well, the risk is minor. If it breaks, people can switch back to gzip easily enough. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
