linux-kernel - Re: Reiser4 und LZO compression

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Date:	Sun, 27 Aug 2006 04:42:59 -0500
From:	David Masover <ninja@...phack.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
CC:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>, reiserfs-list@...esys.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reiser4 und LZO compression

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 04:34:26 +0400
> Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.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...

Maybe just ask upstream?
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