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SubjectRe: Reiser4 und LZO compression
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 04:42:59 -0500
David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:

> 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...

The ifdef jungle is ugly, and especially the WIN / 16-bit DOS stuff is
completely useless here.

> Maybe just ask upstream?

I am not sure if Mr. Oberhumer still cares about LZO 1.x, AFAIK he now
develops a new compressor under a commercial license.

Regards,
--
Jindrich Makovicka
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