Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261797AbTFFOfk (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2003 10:35:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261798AbTFFOfj (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2003 10:35:39 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:8089 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261797AbTFFOfj (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2003 10:35:39 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Nicholas Wourms Subject: Re: [Patch] 2.5.70-bk9 kick FAR out of the zlib Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 10:49:09 -0400 Message-ID: <3EE0A9E5.9080000@myrealbox.com> References: <20030605194644.GA22439@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20030605203108.GD22439@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Cc: Steven Cole User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 832 Lines: 16 J?rn Engel wrote: > My words were "all or nothing". Linus was against nothing, so the > answer is all, that simple. > > As to your "someone comes up with a better zlib" concern, this has > happened already. An guess what, we ignored it. So unless you come > up with a patch to get the 1.1.4 changes into the kernel and describe > what the two magic bits are all about, I couldn't care less. 1.1.4 would be a waste of time at this point. Better to wait for the upcoming 1.2.x release, which promises improved performance (esp. on x86) and better compression... Cheers, Nicholas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/