From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Moving zlib so that others may use it
Date: 9 Jan 2002 15:36:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a1ik6l$hfm$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C3CD304.9070704@acm.org>
Followup to: <3C3CD304.9070704@acm.org>
By author: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I'm working on a function that uses zlib in the kernel, and I know of
> other places zlib is used (ppp_deflate, jffs2, mcore). I would expect
> more users to come along.
>
CAREFUL. First of all, don't mix up the deflate and inflate
functions, second of all, make sure you get the memory management
right. It's not trivial to do the latter, since the default zlib
memory management is unusable for at least some users in kernelspace.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-09 23:38 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 [this message]
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
2002-01-10 14:13 ` David Woodhouse
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