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From: Tomas M <tomas@slax.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LZMA compression algorithm in Kernel - any chance to allow it?
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:37:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48639B88.1020704@slax.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0806261430470.12725@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>

> The bad thing is, they won't tell you before you submitted it.

By 'they' you mean who?
Who decides what is accepted anyway?

    *  H. Peter Anvin, President ?
    * Jeff Uphoff, Treasurer ?
    * Chris Wright, Secretary ?
    * Kees Cook, Board Member ?
    * Linus Torvalds, Board Member ?

[names quoted from http://kernel.org/nonprofit.html:]


> The good thing is, that it may get accepted nevertheless if sent
> often enough.

Well that point is very interesting and useful indeed :)


Tomas M
slax.org

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-26 13:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-26  7:56 LZMA compression algorithm in Kernel - any chance to allow it? Tomas M
2008-06-26 12:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-06-26 13:37   ` Tomas M [this message]
2008-06-26 16:00     ` Stefan Richter
2008-06-26 20:17 ` Pavel Machek
2008-06-27 12:14   ` Tomas M
2008-06-27 12:20     ` Pavel Machek
2008-06-27 13:32   ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-06-27 14:11     ` Tomas M
2008-06-27 14:15       ` Josh Boyer
2008-07-01  6:37       ` Jan Engelhardt
     [not found] <fa.WuwHJZhCHgER6Pu+gn66zdRwVUg@ifi.uio.no>
2008-06-27  1:58 ` Robert Hancock

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