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

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Date:	Thu, 10 May 2007 16:30:15 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Richard Purdie <richard@...nedhand.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel


On May 9 2007 23:21, Andrew Morton wrote:
>On Wed, 02 May 2007 09:56:23 +0100 Richard Purdie <richard@...nedhand.com> wrote:
>
>> Add LZO1X compression/decompression support to the kernel.
>> 
>> This is based on the standard userspace lzo library, particularly
>> minilzo with the headers much trimmed down and simplified for kernel
>> use. Its structured so that it should still diff with the userspace
>> version for ease of future updating.
>
>Well that's attractive-looking code.
>Why is this needed?  What code plans to use it?

Perhaps squashfs [not included] could use it as an alternative to
zlib or LZMA* [not included either].

* That's floating patches not in the official squashfs AFAICT.


	Jan
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