Re: [PATCH] gen_init_cpio: remove leading `/' from file names

[Thomas Chou]

Hi Andrew and Michal,

On 10/06/2010 10:51 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 03:13, Thomas Chou wrote:
> > When we extracted the generated cpio archive using "cpio -id" command,
> > it complained,
> >
> > cpio: Removing leading `/' from member names
> > var/run
> > cpio: Removing leading `/' from member names
> > var/lib
> > cpio: Removing leading `/' from member names
> > var/lib/misc
> >
> > It is worse with the latest "cpio" or "pax", which tries to overwrite
> > the host file system with the leading '/'.
>
> seems to work as intended on Blackfin systems, and i cant see any
> reason to require the leading slash, so:
> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger<vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> -mike

Would you please review this patch? It is not clear as who should handle 
this with the MAINTAINERS.

Best regards,
Thomas
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