Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] staging: erofs: add SPDX identifer | From | Gao Xiang <> | Date | Mon, 8 Oct 2018 22:41:53 +0800 |
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On 2018/10/8 22:36, Gao Xiang wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On 2018/10/8 22:22, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> Why delete that line? >> >> But wait, why do we even have this file at all? What's wrong with the >> lib/lz4/ code that we have in the kernel today? Shouldn't the code >> using these files be moved over to use the lib/ code instead and this >> file be deleted? > > EROFS uses customized LZ4 decompression code for now (which has been offically > supported in lz4 1.8.3, I have updated it in > https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/lib-lz4-update-lz4-decompressor-module.patch > if it is shown up in Linux 4.20, I will remove all the customized LZ4 decompression code), > but lib/ code lz4def.h isn't export to include/.
Please refer to https://github.com/lz4/lz4/issues/566 for more details the reason why EROFS uses the different implementation rather than the current lib/lz4/ code in the kernel today (it will be changed in the next Linux version if the updated code works fine.)
Thanks, Gao Xiang
> > Thanks, > Gao Xiang > >> >> thanks, >> >> greg k-h
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