From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>

It turns out that the "-c" option of cpio is highly unportable even between
distros let alone unix variants, and may actually make the wrong type of
cpio archive.  I just wasted quite some time on this, and the kernel can
detect this and warn about it (it's __init memory so it gets thrown away
and thus there is no runtime overhead)

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---

 init/initramfs.c |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff -puN init/initramfs.c~make-initramfs-printk-a-warning-on-incorrect-cpio-type init/initramfs.c
--- a/init/initramfs.c~make-initramfs-printk-a-warning-on-incorrect-cpio-type
+++ a/init/initramfs.c
@@ -182,6 +182,10 @@ static int __init do_collect(void)
 
 static int __init do_header(void)
 {
+	if (memcmp(collected, "070707", 6)==0) {
+		error("incorrect cpio method used: use -H newc option");
+		return 1;
+	}
 	if (memcmp(collected, "070701", 6)) {
 		error("no cpio magic");
 		return 1;
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