Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759839AbXE1MQS (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2007 08:16:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751201AbXE1MQL (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2007 08:16:11 -0400 Received: from ppsw-4.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.134]:41294 "EHLO ppsw-4.csi.cam.ac.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751300AbXE1MQK (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2007 08:16:10 -0400 X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ In-Reply-To: <4cefeab80705280509x73c8a1c9m9e8ba58d235a3666@mail.gmail.com> References: <4cefeab80705272359o16725994k7f3c01b99c5691cd@mail.gmail.com> <871A3BF3-A0EA-40E4-AB5F-FF6DDCE12DC7@cam.ac.uk> <4cefeab80705280509x73c8a1c9m9e8ba58d235a3666@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Cc: lkml , linux-mm-cc@laptop.org, linuxcompressed-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, "Andrew Morton" , "Richard Purdie" , "Daniel Hazelton" , "Bret Towe" , "Satyam Sharma" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Michael-Luke Jones Subject: Re: [RFC] LZO de/compression support - take 5 Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 13:16:08 +0100 To: "Nitin Gupta" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 877 Lines: 23 On 28 May 2007, at 13:09, Nitin Gupta wrote: >> This means: >> 1) Options in lib/Kconfig hidden (selectable by drivers as required) > > LZO as hidden option has no practical sense. Although LZO should be > auto-selected when some dependent project is selected (e.g. reieser4) > - there should be separate patch for this. Mixing such changes with > 'core' LZO patch will just add side noise. No, LZO as a visible option makes no practical sense. Why would anyone want to build LZO into a kernel when there are no in-kernel users of the code? In fact, all of the library code should probably go this way... Michael-Luke Jones - 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/