Am 26.03.2014 22:55, schrieb Alexander Holler:
Am 26.03.2014 22:38, schrieb Levente Kurusa:
What I think might be reasonable is:
- get rid of the dependency list in form of a include into the
Makefile and
just generate the cpio-archive every time make is called. Common
initramfs
sizes are about a few megabytes and with today machines such a
cpio-archive
is build in about a second,
I don't understand what kind of include would you want.
Why do you try to discuss stuff you don't know about and haven't looked
at? You could have taken the time to try out the description of my patch
insgtead of just checking it for typos. Thats why I did spend the time
to write that description.
The include is already there and is used. And that completly renders any
further call of make broken, including make clean, distclean and
mrproper. And is isn't obvious how to fix a once broken make. Even git
clean -df doesn't help.
- get rid of gen_initramfs_list.sh and rewrite gen_init_cpio.c such
that it
reads the filenames, modes and similiar itself (e.g. by using stat(2)).
This is walkable but probably not worth the effort. Besides, why would
anyone want to put spaces, colons and arbitrary characters to filenames
in the initramfs?
I've already suggest an example for that. If you have a machine with
bluetooth, look at /var/lib/bluetooth and you will discover directories
with colons. So, guess what happens if you want to have (preset)
link-keys in an initramfs to avoid an otherwise necessary pairing.
And spaces in filenames are used by a lot of people for various reasons.
And you might wonder, but there exists software one might want to use in
an initramfs which needs some file(s) with an hardcoded name wich
contains spaces.
Alexander Holler
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