From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Tomas M <tomas@slax.org>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LZMA compression algorithm in Kernel - any chance to allow it?
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:00:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4863BD15.302@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48639B88.1020704@slax.org>
Tomas M wrote:
>> The bad thing is, they won't tell you before you submitted it.
>
> By 'they' you mean who?
> Who decides what is accepted anyway?
Major contributors (reviewers, maintainers) do, and ultimately Linus.
You said LZMA is already used by out-of-tree code in the embedded
domain. So I suppose a submission of an LZMA implementation should
rather be part of a submission of code which actually uses it.
--
Stefan Richter
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-26 16:00 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
2008-06-26 16:00 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
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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