Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton)

Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 "Quite a lot of other stuff is banked up awaiting further
  next->mainline merging, but this batch contains:

   - Lots of random misc patches
   - OCFS2
   - Most of MM
   - backlight updates
   - lib/ updates
   - printk updates
   - checkpatch updates
   - epoll tweaking
   - rtc updates
   - hfs
   - hfsplus
   - documentation
   - procfs
   - update gcov to gcc-4.7 format
   - IPC"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (269 commits)
  ipc, msg: fix message length check for negative values
  ipc/util.c: remove unnecessary work pending test
  devpts: plug the memory leak in kill_sb
  ./Makefile: export initial ramdisk compression config option
  init/Kconfig: add option to disable kernel compression
  drivers: w1: make w1_slave::flags long to avoid memory corruption
  drivers/w1/masters/ds1wm.cuse dev_get_platdata()
  drivers/memstick/core/ms_block.c: fix unreachable state in h_msb_read_page()
  drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c: fix attributes array allocation
  drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: remove redundant of_match_ptr
  kernel/panic.c: reduce 1 byte usage for print tainted buffer
  gcov: reuse kbasename helper
  kernel/gcov/fs.c: use pr_warn()
  kernel/module.c: use pr_foo()
  gcov: compile specific gcov implementation based on gcc version
  gcov: add support for gcc 4.7 gcov format
  gcov: move gcov structs definitions to a gcc version specific file
  kernel/taskstats.c: return -ENOMEM when alloc memory fails in add_del_listener()
  kernel/taskstats.c: add nla_nest_cancel() for failure processing between nla_nest_start() and nla_nest_end()
  kernel/sysctl_binary.c: use scnprintf() instead of snprintf()
  ...

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 67077ad6edbb..606a66cdcdb8 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -720,6 +720,22 @@ mod_strip_cmd = true
 endif # INSTALL_MOD_STRIP
 export mod_strip_cmd
 
+# Select initial ramdisk compression format, default is gzip(1).
+# This shall be used by the dracut(8) tool while creating an initramfs image.
+#
+INITRD_COMPRESS=gzip
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_RD_BZIP2), y)
+        INITRD_COMPRESS=bzip2
+else ifeq ($(CONFIG_RD_LZMA), y)
+        INITRD_COMPRESS=lzma
+else ifeq ($(CONFIG_RD_XZ), y)
+        INITRD_COMPRESS=xz
+else ifeq ($(CONFIG_RD_LZO), y)
+        INITRD_COMPRESS=lzo
+else ifeq ($(CONFIG_RD_LZ4), y)
+        INITRD_COMPRESS=lz4
+endif
+export INITRD_COMPRESS
 
 ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ALL
 MODSECKEY = ./signing_key.priv