From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org,
Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>,
Loic Tourlonias <loic.tourlonias.lkml@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: erofs: add SPDX identifer
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 16:43:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181008144335.GA15968@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e9620bf6-5f3f-108d-b9f1-91af1ad603d6@huawei.com>
On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 10:36:39PM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On 2018/10/8 22:22, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > Why delete that line?
> >
> > But wait, why do we even have this file at all? What's wrong with the
> > lib/lz4/ code that we have in the kernel today? Shouldn't the code
> > using these files be moved over to use the lib/ code instead and this
> > file be deleted?
>
> EROFS uses customized LZ4 decompression code for now (which has been offically
> supported in lz4 1.8.3, I have updated it in
> https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/lib-lz4-update-lz4-decompressor-module.patch
> if it is shown up in Linux 4.20, I will remove all the customized LZ4 decompression code),
> but lib/ code lz4def.h isn't export to include/.
It should show up in 4.20, so you should be able to remove this all
then.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-08 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-08 14:14 [PATCH v2] staging: erofs: add SPDX identifer Loic Tourlonias
2018-10-08 14:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-10-08 14:36 ` Gao Xiang
2018-10-08 14:41 ` Gao Xiang
2018-10-08 14:43 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2018-10-08 14:48 ` Gao Xiang
2018-10-08 15:00 ` loïc tourlonias
2018-10-08 15:02 ` Gao Xiang
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