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authorZdenek Pavlas2006-03-25 05:07:49 -0600
committerLinus Torvalds2006-03-25 10:22:57 -0600
commit340e48e662dc9bf79cdd9dc755cb2eb2bad580cd (patch)
treedcd67a41171101d47cf9afa77f642fc2b3efe172 /init/initramfs.c
parent05eeae208d08a05a6980cf2ff61f02843c0955fd (diff)
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[PATCH] BLK_DEV_INITRD: do not require BLK_DEV_RAM=y
Initramfs initrd images do not need a ramdisk device, so remove this restriction in Kconfig. BLK_DEV_RAM=n saves about 13k on i386. Also without ramdisk device there's no need for "dry run", so initramfs unpacks much faster. People using cramfs, squashfs, or gzipped ext2/minix initrd images are probably smart enough not to turn off ramdisk support by accident. Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'init/initramfs.c')
-rw-r--r--init/initramfs.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/init/initramfs.c b/init/initramfs.c
index 637344b05981..77b934cccefe 100644
--- a/init/initramfs.c
+++ b/init/initramfs.c
@@ -506,6 +506,7 @@ void __init populate_rootfs(void)
506 panic(err); 506 panic(err);
507#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD 507#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
508 if (initrd_start) { 508 if (initrd_start) {
509#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM
509 int fd; 510 int fd;
510 printk(KERN_INFO "checking if image is initramfs..."); 511 printk(KERN_INFO "checking if image is initramfs...");
511 err = unpack_to_rootfs((char *)initrd_start, 512 err = unpack_to_rootfs((char *)initrd_start,
@@ -525,6 +526,15 @@ void __init populate_rootfs(void)
525 sys_close(fd); 526 sys_close(fd);
526 free_initrd(); 527 free_initrd();
527 } 528 }
529#else
530 printk(KERN_INFO "Unpacking initramfs...");
531 err = unpack_to_rootfs((char *)initrd_start,
532 initrd_end - initrd_start, 0);
533 if (err)
534 panic(err);
535 printk(" done\n");
536 free_initrd();
537#endif
528 } 538 }
529#endif 539#endif
530} 540}