Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760748AbXEJOdW (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 10:33:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752338AbXEJOdP (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 10:33:15 -0400 Received: from mailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.26]:48201 "EHLO mailer.gwdg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752573AbXEJOdP (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 10:33:15 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 16:30:15 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Andrew Morton cc: Richard Purdie , LKML , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel In-Reply-To: <20070509232129.371f49d5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <1178096183.5860.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070509232129.371f49d5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 958 Lines: 27 On May 9 2007 23:21, Andrew Morton wrote: >On Wed, 02 May 2007 09:56:23 +0100 Richard Purdie wrote: > >> Add LZO1X compression/decompression support to the kernel. >> >> This is based on the standard userspace lzo library, particularly >> minilzo with the headers much trimmed down and simplified for kernel >> use. Its structured so that it should still diff with the userspace >> version for ease of future updating. > >Well that's attractive-looking code. >Why is this needed? What code plans to use it? Perhaps squashfs [not included] could use it as an alternative to zlib or LZMA* [not included either]. * That's floating patches not in the official squashfs AFAICT. Jan -- - 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/