From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: paulus@samba.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libz, libbz2, ramfs and cramfs
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 20:25:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BCE4BB5.8060603@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19978.1003206943@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> <3BCBE29D.CFEC1F05@alacritech.com> <9qjfki$ob5$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <15310.18125.367838.562789@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Paul Mackerras wrote:
>
> PPP uses a variant of zlib with some extensions. I believe that I
> didn't break zlib for normal use when I added the extensions but I
> would have to check that to be 100% sure. The PPP zlib.c is based on
> zlib-1.0.4, which is no longer the most recent version.
>
What kind of extensions?
> I think it would be possible to make PPP use the standard zlib but
> with decreased performance. It's a long time since I looked at that
> stuff though.
>
>>A major problem is that the module name "deflate" is used by PPP,
>>despite it being a nonstandard format...
>>
>
> No, the module name is "ppp_deflate".
>
Oh. Well, then ...
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-18 3:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-15 13:06 libz, libbz2, ramfs and cramfs Cristiano Paris
2001-10-15 22:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-10-16 4:35 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-16 7:32 ` Matt D. Robinson
2001-10-17 8:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-10-18 3:04 ` Paul Mackerras
2001-10-18 3:25 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-10-18 7:15 ` Paul Mackerras
2001-10-18 12:15 ` Paul Mackerras
2001-10-18 17:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-10-17 8:45 ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-16 17:36 ` David Woodhouse
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