Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] staging: erofs: add SPDX identifer | From | Gao Xiang <> | Date | Mon, 8 Oct 2018 23:02:10 +0800 |
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Hi Loic,
On 2018/10/8 23:00, loïc tourlonias wrote: > Hi Gao, > On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 4:48 PM Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Greg, >> >> On 2018/10/8 22:43, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 10:36:39PM +0800, 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/. >>> >>> It should show up in 4.20, so you should be able to remove this all >>> then. >> >> Yes, that is correct. I will fix it in 4.20 if the updated LZ4 is already there. :) > > So no need to update the patch since the file will be removed. Am I correct? > > Too bad, I'll make my first patch later... ^^
I think you could make the patch if you want :) It is up to Greg whether take this patch or not since it is actually a cleanup attempt.
I will also do more cleanups beside my current work, yet EROFS is now busy in productization.
Thanks, Gao Xiang
> > Thanks > Loic >> >> Thanks, >> Gao Xiang >> >>> >>> thanks, >>> >>> greg k-h >>>
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