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SubjectRe: Reiser4 und LZO compression
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...

Maybe just ask upstream?
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