Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 23:25:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 23:25:38 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:14867 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 23:25:35 -0400 Message-ID: <3BCE4BB5.8060603@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 20:25:41 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Zytor Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011012 X-Accept-Language: en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: paulus@samba.org CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: libz, libbz2, ramfs and cramfs In-Reply-To: <19978.1003206943@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> <3BCBE29D.CFEC1F05@alacritech.com> <9qjfki$ob5$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <15310.18125.367838.562789@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Paul Mackerras wrote: > > PPP uses a variant of zlib with some extensions. I believe that I > didn't break zlib for normal use when I added the extensions but I > would have to check that to be 100% sure. The PPP zlib.c is based on > zlib-1.0.4, which is no longer the most recent version. > What kind of extensions? > I think it would be possible to make PPP use the standard zlib but > with decreased performance. It's a long time since I looked at that > stuff though. > >>A major problem is that the module name "deflate" is used by PPP, >>despite it being a nonstandard format... >> > > No, the module name is "ppp_deflate". > Oh. Well, then ... -hpa - 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/