linux-kernel - Re: Reiser4 und LZO compression

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Date:	Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:34:01 +0200
From:	Jindrich Makovicka <makovick@...il.com>
To:	David Masover <ninja@...phack.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	reiserfs-list@...esys.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reiser4 und LZO compression

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 04:42:59 -0500
David Masover <ninja@...phack.com> wrote:

> 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...

The ifdef jungle is ugly, and especially the WIN / 16-bit DOS stuff is
completely useless here.

> Maybe just ask upstream?

I am not sure if Mr. Oberhumer still cares about LZO 1.x, AFAIK he now
develops a new compressor under a commercial license.

Regards,
-- 
Jindrich Makovicka
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