linux-kernel - Re: Reiser4 und LZO compression

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Message-ID: <44F3307C.8070704@namesys.com>
Date:	Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:05:48 +0400
From:	Edward Shishkin <edward@...esys.com>
To:	Jindrich Makovicka <makovick@...il.com>
CC:	David Masover <ninja@...phack.com>, 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

Jindrich Makovicka wrote:
> 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.
> 

I agree that it needs some brushing,
putting in todo..


> 
>>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,

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