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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/early-userspace/buffer-format.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/early-userspace/buffer-format.rst index 726bfa2fe70d..4597a91100b7 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/early-userspace/buffer-format.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/early-userspace/buffer-format.rst @@ -86,6 +86,11 @@ c_mtime is ignored unless CONFIG_INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME=y is set. The c_filesize should be zero for any file which is not a regular file or symlink. +c_namesize may account for more than one trailing '\0', as long as the +value doesn't exceed PATH_MAX. This can be useful for ensuring that a +subsequent file data segment is aligned, e.g. to a filesystem block +boundary. + The c_chksum field contains a simple 32-bit unsigned sum of all the bytes in the data field. cpio(1) refers to this as "crc", which is clearly incorrect (a cyclic redundancy check is a different and |