Re: bzip2 support against 2.4.18

Tom Oehser (tom@toms.net)
Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:25:37 -0400 (EDT)

> Do you really? Why? Exactly what purpose does it serve to know how your
> kernel was compressed, considering that it knows how to uncompress itself?

I already use the name in scripts for tomsrtbt to decide whether the ramdisk
should be compressed with bzip2 or gzip, since the kernel compression method
(in my original patch) determines the required ramdisk compression.

-Tom

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