Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: zram: add Crypto API support

From: Piotr Sarna
Date: Wed Jul 31 2013 - 06:17:26 EST


Hi,

On 07/30/2013 03:53 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 02:30:48PM +0200, Piotr Sarna wrote:
>> Current version of zram does not allow any substitution of a default
>> compression algorithm. Therefore, I decided to change the existing
>> implementation of page compression by adding Crypto API compability.
>
> As I have stated before, I want this code to get merged out of the
> drivers/staging/ area _before_ any new features get added to it. People
> are taking too much time adding new stuff, like this, and no one seems
> to be working to get it merged to the proper place anymore.
>

OK, but we actually need those features in order to test zram
against other, competitive solutions - and then decide whether
and how to merge it out of /drivers/staging.

> So again, I'm going to have to say no to a new feature here, sorry.
> zcache, zram, and zsmalloc need to get cleaned up and merged out of
> staging before anything new can be added to them.
>
> Or, if no one is working on that, I guess I can just delete them,
> right?...
>

Is there any official TODO list of cleaning up and merging out zram?

Regards,
Piotr Sarna
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