From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Moving zlib so that others may use it
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 22:08:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C3D2FF9.8040405@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25006.1010627525@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> <3C3D19AD.60306@acm.org>
Corey Minyard wrote:
>
> I'm not sure I follow you here. Do you want to completely separate the
> inflate and deflate stuff (so if something only needs one, it only has
> to include one)? I'm not sure of the value, and it would be kind of a
> pain for maintenance (since zlib is from an external source).
>
> As far as memory management, all the versions I am talking about are
> almost exactly the same, so that shouldn't be a problem.
>
It is external, but it's quite well separated anyway.
Look at the inflate_fs one (fs/inflate_fs); it has both the memory
management dealt with and decompression factored out...
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-10 6:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-09 23:32 Moving zlib so that others may use it Corey Minyard
2002-01-09 23:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-10 1:52 ` Keith Owens
2002-01-10 4:23 ` Corey Minyard
2002-01-10 4:44 ` Keith Owens
2002-01-10 5:13 ` Corey Minyard
2002-01-10 5:40 ` Keith Owens
2002-01-10 10:55 ` Thomas Capricelli
2002-01-10 14:40 ` Corey Minyard
2002-01-10 15:22 ` Corey Minyard
2002-01-10 9:37 ` Zygo Blaxell
2002-01-10 15:30 ` Tom Rini
2002-01-10 15:36 ` Tom Rini
2002-01-10 16:20 ` Corey Minyard
2002-01-10 16:35 ` Tom Rini
2002-01-10 4:33 ` Corey Minyard
2002-01-10 6:08 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-01-10 14:13 ` David Woodhouse
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