Don't set the INITRD_COMPRESS environment variable automatically
Commit 1bf49dd4be0b ("./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>
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 89cee86..82ea7dd 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -738,7 +738,9 @@
INITRD_COMPRESS-$(CONFIG_RD_XZ) := xz
INITRD_COMPRESS-$(CONFIG_RD_LZO) := lzo
INITRD_COMPRESS-$(CONFIG_RD_LZ4) := lz4
-export INITRD_COMPRESS := $(INITRD_COMPRESS-y)
+# do not export INITRD_COMPRESS, since we didn't actually
+# choose a sane default compression above.
+# export INITRD_COMPRESS := $(INITRD_COMPRESS-y)
ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ALL
MODSECKEY = ./signing_key.priv