Don't set the INITRD_COMPRESS environment variable automatically
Commit 1bf49dd4 ("./Makefile: export initial ramdisk compression config option") started setting the INITRD_COMPRESS environment variable depending on which decompression models the kernel had available. That is completely broken. For example, we by default have CONFIG_RD_LZ4 enabled, and are able to decompress such an initrd, but the user tools to *create* such an initrd may not be availble. So trying to tell dracut to generate an lz4-compressed image just because we can decode such an image is completely inappropriate. Cc: J P <ppandit@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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