Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759428AbYFZQAr (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:00:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754540AbYFZQA1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:00:27 -0400 Received: from hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de ([141.43.120.68]:36214 "EHLO hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754393AbYFZQA0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:00:26 -0400 Message-ID: <4863BD15.302@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:00:21 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tomas M CC: Jan Engelhardt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: LZMA compression algorithm in Kernel - any chance to allow it? References: <48634BA7.6030902@slax.org> <48639B88.1020704@slax.org> In-Reply-To: <48639B88.1020704@slax.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 729 Lines: 20 Tomas M wrote: >> The bad thing is, they won't tell you before you submitted it. > > By 'they' you mean who? > Who decides what is accepted anyway? Major contributors (reviewers, maintainers) do, and ultimately Linus. You said LZMA is already used by out-of-tree code in the embedded domain. So I suppose a submission of an LZMA implementation should rather be part of a submission of code which actually uses it. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- -==- ==-=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- 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/