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| author | Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> | 2018-08-21 00:29:51 +0900 |
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| committer | Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> | 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +0900 |
| commit | f6f57a46435d7253a52a1a07a58183678ad266a0 (patch) | |
| tree | f37f3f14fa4c38fba954e080210a11190a21e645 /Documentation | |
| parent | 7953002a7c6561c93defd19c81737012ef5a10dc (diff) | |
| download | linux-f6f57a46435d7253a52a1a07a58183678ad266a0.tar.bz2 | |
initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/
scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh is only invoked from usr/Makefile.
Move it so that all tools to create initramfs are self-contained
in the usr/ directory.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/early-userspace/README | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt | 2 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/early-userspace/README b/Documentation/early-userspace/README index 2c00b072a4c8..1e1057958dd3 100644 --- a/Documentation/early-userspace/README +++ b/Documentation/early-userspace/README @@ -66,17 +66,17 @@ early userspace image can be built by an unprivileged user. As a technical note, when directories and files are specified, the entire CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE is passed to -scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh. This means that CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE +usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh. This means that CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE can really be interpreted as any legal argument to gen_initramfs_list.sh. If a directory is specified as an argument then the contents are scanned, uid/gid translation is performed, and usr/gen_init_cpio file directives are output. If a directory is -specified as an argument to scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh then the +specified as an argument to usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh then the contents of the file are simply copied to the output. All of the output directives from directory scanning and file contents copying are processed by usr/gen_init_cpio. -See also 'scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh -h'. +See also 'usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh -h'. Where's this all leading? ========================= diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt index b176928e6963..79637d227e85 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ Documentation/early-userspace/README for more details.) The kernel does not depend on external cpio tools. If you specify a directory instead of a configuration file, the kernel's build infrastructure creates a configuration file from that directory (usr/Makefile calls -scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh), and proceeds to package up that directory +usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh), and proceeds to package up that directory using the config file (by feeding it to usr/gen_init_cpio, which is created from usr/gen_init_cpio.c). The kernel's build-time cpio creation code is entirely self-contained, and the kernel's boot-time extractor is also |