Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Aug 2006 04:42:59 -0500 | From | David Masover <> | Subject | Re: Reiser4 und LZO compression |
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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...
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