On May 9 2007 23:21, Andrew Morton wrote:
>On Wed, 02 May 2007 09:56:23 +0100 Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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