Re: Reiser4 und LZO compression

[David Masover]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 04:34:26 +0400
> Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> 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...

Maybe just ask upstream?
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