Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755021AbXE3Qn6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 May 2007 12:43:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752011AbXE3Qnv (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 May 2007 12:43:51 -0400 Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([131.228.20.170]:54493 "EHLO mgw-ext11.nokia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751128AbXE3Qnv (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 May 2007 12:43:51 -0400 Message-ID: <465DA9B7.30700@yandex.ru> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 19:43:35 +0300 From: Artem Bityutskiy User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Satyam Sharma CC: Daniel Hazelton , Michael-Luke Jones , lkml , dwmw2@infradead.org, Mark Adler , jloup@gzip.org Subject: Re: JFFS2 using 'private' zlib header (was [RFC] LZO de/compression support - take 6) References: <4cefeab80705280734i37df1742k6738cd4200813684@mail.gmail.com> <231C137C-D0BF-44F7-B2D5-AE610284D00A@cam.ac.uk> <200705290943.11176.dhazelton@enter.net> <465D7EFB.8090609@yandex.ru> <465D9C62.4070009@yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 May 2007 16:43:35.0848 (UTC) FILETIME=[AAADFA80:01C7A2D9] X-Nokia-AV: Clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1037 Lines: 27 Satyam Sharma wrote: > Hi Artem, > > On 5/30/07, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: >> Err, and important note is that it also wants this compressed data to be >> independently uncompressable. > > Hmm, okay. > > But what I meant was that if jffs2's needs are "standard" enough in > the sense that they could conceivably be required by other users too > (and this one mentioned by you does appear to be one of those), > then why not make such hacks (if they are necessary and suitable > indeed, lets wait for Mark's response) part of zlib itself? I really not sure - I vaguely remember that zlib just cannot provide this capability. And what JFFS2 does is not always correct. But again, it was so long time ago... -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий) - 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/