Re: [GIT PULL] zstd support (lib, btrfs, squashfs)

From	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [GIT PULL] zstd support (lib, btrfs, squashfs)
Date	2017-09-09 06:20 +0200
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On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 02:48:55AM +0000, Nick Terrell wrote:
>
> There is a patch [1] floating around adding zstd support to compressed RAM
> that uses the crypto API.
> 
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170824014936.4738-1-sergey.senozhatsky%40gmail.com

Yes but I think it would make more sense for the crypto API patches
to be submitted together with its first user.  It wouldn't be the
first time for an algorithm to be added with an intended user which
itself never actually gets merged into the kernel.

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Re: [GIT PULL] zstd support (lib, btrfs, squashfs) Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2017-09-09 03:40 +0200
  Re: [GIT PULL] zstd support (lib, btrfs, squashfs) Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com> - 2017-09-09 04:50 +0200
    Re: [GIT PULL] zstd support (lib, btrfs, squashfs) Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2017-09-09 06:20 +0200

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