linux-kernel - Re: LZMA compression algorithm in Kernel

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Message-ID: <4863BD15.302@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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
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