Re: scripts/extract-ikconfig only works on uncompressed andCONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP kernels

From: AmÃrico Wang
Date: Sun Oct 17 2010 - 22:41:51 EST


On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:48:46AM +0000, Alex Elsayed wrote:
>I have a kernel that was compiled with LZMA compression (CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA). I
>wish to extract the .config from it without running it, but the script to do so
>does not support such kernels. How could I go about fixing this, so that the
>script supports other compression modes than just gzip?
>

I am not surprised at all, that program looks for gzip signature,
which is gzip only apparently. :)
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