Re: [Patch] 2.5.70-bk9 kick FAR out of the zlib

[Nicholas Wourms]

Jörn Engel wrote:
> My words were "all or nothing".  Linus was against nothing, so the
> answer is all, that simple.
> 
> As to your "someone comes up with a better zlib" concern, this has
> happened already.  An guess what, we ignored it.  So unless you come
> up with a patch to get the 1.1.4 changes into the kernel and describe
> what the two magic bits are all about, I couldn't care less.

1.1.4 would be a waste of time at this point.  Better to wait for the 
upcoming 1.2.x release, which promises improved performance (esp. on 
x86) and better compression...

Cheers,
Nicholas