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SubjectRe: [PATCH 5/9] btrfs: zstd: Switch to the zstd-1.4.6 API
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 09:35:51PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > One possibility is to have a kernel wrapper on top of the zstd API to
> > make it
> > more ergonomic. I personally don???t really see the value in it, since
> > it adds
> > another layer of indirection between zstd and the caller, but it
> > could be done.
>
> Zstd would not be the first part of the kernel to
> come from somewhere else, and have wrappers when
> it gets integrated into the kernel. There certainly
> is precedence there.
>
> It would be interesting to know what Christoph's
> preference is.

Yes, I think kernel wrappers would be a pretty sensible step forward.
That also avoid the need to do strange upgrades to a new version,
and instead we can just change APIs on a as-needed basis.

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