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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:05:48 +0400
From: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
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To: Jindrich Makovicka <makovick@gmail.com>
CC: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com,
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Subject: Re: Reiser4 und LZO compression
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Jindrich Makovicka wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 04:42:59 -0500
> David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 04:34:26 +0400
>>>Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>The patch below is so-called reiser4 LZO compression plugin as
>>>>extracted from 2.6.18-rc4-mm3.
>>>>
>>>>I think it is an unauditable piece of shit and thus should not
>>>>enter mainline.
>>>
>>>Like lib/inflate.c (and this new code should arguably be in lib/).
>>>
>>>The problem is that if we clean this up, we've diverged very much
>>>from the upstream implementation.  So taking in fixes and features
>>>from upstream becomes harder and more error-prone.
>>
>>Well, what kinds of changes have to happen?  I doubt upstream would
>>care about moving some of it to lib/ -- and anyway, reiserfs-list is
>>on the CC.  We are speaking of upstream in the third party in the
>>presence of upstream, so...
> 
> 
> The ifdef jungle is ugly, and especially the WIN / 16-bit DOS stuff is
> completely useless here.
> 

I agree that it needs some brushing,
putting in todo..


> 
>>Maybe just ask upstream?
> 
> 
> I am not sure if Mr. Oberhumer still cares about LZO 1.x, AFAIK he now
> develops a new compressor under a commercial license.
> 
> Regards,

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