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Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:00:21 +0200 From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> To: Tomas M <tomas@...x.org> CC: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: LZMA compression algorithm in Kernel - any chance to allow it? Tomas M wrote: >> The bad thing is, they won't tell you before you submitted it. > > By 'they' you mean who? > Who decides what is accepted anyway? Major contributors (reviewers, maintainers) do, and ultimately Linus. You said LZMA is already used by out-of-tree code in the embedded domain. So I suppose a submission of an LZMA implementation should rather be part of a submission of code which actually uses it. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- -==- ==-=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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