linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel

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Date:	Thu, 7 Jun 2007 14:23:54 +0530
From:	"Nitin Gupta" <nitingupta910@...il.com>
To:	"Richard Purdie" <rpurdie@...nedhand.com>
Cc:	akpm <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel

On 6/7/07, Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...nedhand.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 10:11 +0530, Nitin Gupta wrote:
> > Your code now looks nice and clean. But I don't know what you want. I
> > already spent lot of time on version 7 I posted and contains all those
> > corrections which were suggested for my earlier version. I cannot ask
> > you to look into possible problems (if any) in my code now since  you
> > are not interested in that anyway. So, please continue this
> > duplication.
>
> What I (and others) repeatedly asked for was an explanation of why there
> were the differences between the bytecode from your version and the
> bytecode from mine. This was never explained by you and I was left to do
> this myself. Sadly, doing so meant some duplication.
>

I don't know the reason for bytecode difference. I focused on making
sure that the C code is functionally identical to original code. I
never did a bytecode diff.

> Anyhow, I think I can now explain the differences. Now we have two
> versions, its a question of how to proceed. Basically one needs to be
> merged into the other. I will try and compare the two patches and see
> what differences we have.

Sounds good.

Regards,
Nitin
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