From 15a33f3d28d9efa512b736853046224d7d2701d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Pipping <sebastian@pipping.org>
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 23:42:32 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Catch case with no initramfs compression supported by kernel
 (bug #423847)

---
 ChangeLog        | 4 ++++
 gen_initramfs.sh | 1 +
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3950fa6..2469de6 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
 # Distributed under the GPL v2
 # $Id$
 
+  08 Jul 2012; Sebastian Pipping <sping@gentoo.org> gen_configkernel.sh,
+  gen_initramfs.sh:
+  Catch case with no initramfs compression supported by kernel (bug #423847)
+
   08 Jul 2012; Sebastian Pipping <sping@gentoo.org> gen_configkernel.sh,
   gen_initramfs.sh:
   Fix detection of initramfs compression with bzip2 as best candidate
diff --git a/gen_initramfs.sh b/gen_initramfs.sh
index 6769063..43ef155 100755
--- a/gen_initramfs.sh
+++ b/gen_initramfs.sh
@@ -790,6 +790,7 @@ create_initramfs() {
 							[[ ${COMPRESS_INITRD_TYPE} == best ]] && break
 						fi
 					done
+					[[ -z "${compression}" ]] && gen_die "None of the initramfs we tried are supported by your kernel (config file \"${KERNEL_CONFIG}\"), strange!?"
 					;;
 				*)
 					gen_die "Compression '${COMPRESS_INITRD_TYPE}' unknown"
-- 
2.26.2