From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:50029 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752222Ab3BAGmI (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2013 01:42:08 -0500 Message-ID: <510B629C.1010605@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:37:16 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels References: <1359179447-31118-1-git-send-email-kyungsik.lee@lge.com> <20130128142510.68092e10.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20130129101549.GP23505@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <51089523.3080804@zytor.com> <510AE6BF.4080303@zytor.com> <510AEDC2.80107@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Nicolas Pitre Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , Michal Marek , hyojun.im@lge.com, raphael.andy.lee@gmail.com, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, gunho.lee@lge.com, namhyung.kim@lge.com, x86@kernel.org, minchan.kim@lge.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Josh Triplett , Nitin Gupta , Richard Purdie , Ingo Molnar , Joe Millenbach , chan.jeong@lge.com, Kyungsik Lee , Andrew Morton , Albin Tonnerre , CE Linux Developers List , Thomas Gleixner , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org On 01/31/2013 06:28 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: >> >> Well, it is too nasty for public confession, but it's called >> "paravirtualization". > > The fact that you are aware of it means we're not going to break them. > > But my point is that we must not be held back just in case someone out > there might have painted himself in a corner without telling anyone. > Yes. However, it makes it more questionable to simply rip out compression methods without warning. Not that warnings help, as we have learned. -hpa