Hi Linus,

COMPRESSED_INSTALL sounds not very meaningful.

What about ... ?

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index ae527d1d409f..d9f771c788d7 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -2337,8 +2337,8 @@ config EFI
         allow the kernel to be booted as an EFI application. This
         is only useful on systems that have UEFI firmware.

-config COMPRESSED_INSTALL
-       bool "Install compressed image by default"
+config KERNEL_IMAGE_COMPRESSED_INSTALL
+       bool "Install compressed kernel image by default"
       help
         This makes the regular "make install" install the compressed
         image we built, not the legacy uncompressed one.
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Makefile b/arch/arm64/Makefile
index f6bc3da1ef11..1d9b4978eb98 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/Makefile
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ $(BOOT_TARGETS): vmlinux
Image.%: Image
       $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(boot) $(boot)/$@

-ifeq ($(CONFIG_COMPRESSED_INSTALL),y)
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_KERNEL_IMAGE_COMPRESSED_INSTALL),y)
 DEFAULT_KBUILD_IMAGE = $(KBUILD_IMAGE)
else
 DEFAULT_KBUILD_IMAGE = $(boot)/Image
@@ -235,8 +235,8 @@ define archhelp
  echo  '* Image.gz      - Compressed kernel image (arch/$(ARCH)/boot/Image.gz)'
  echo  '  Image         - Uncompressed kernel image (arch/$(ARCH)/boot/Image)'
  echo  '  image.fit     - Flat Image Tree (arch/$(ARCH)/boot/image.fit)'
-  echo  '  install       - Install kernel (compressed if
COMPRESSED_INSTALL set)'
-  echo  '  zinstall      - Install compressed kernel'
+  echo  '  install       - Install kernel image (compressed if
KERNEL_IMAGE_COMPRESSED_INSTALL is set)'
+  echo  '  zinstall      - Install compressed kernel image'
  echo  '                  Install using (your) ~/bin/installkernel or'
  echo  '                  (distribution) /sbin/installkernel or'
  echo  '                  install to $$(INSTALL_PATH) and run lilo

I would have renamed KBUILD_IMAGE to KERNEL_IMAGE but other archs use the first.

Thanks.

Best regards,
-Sedat-

P.S.: Attached as patch in the case when GMail will truncate above snippet.