On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 09:35:51PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > > One possibility is to have a kernel wrapper on top of the zstd API to > > make it > > more ergonomic. I personally don???t really see the value in it, since > > it adds > > another layer of indirection between zstd and the caller, but it > > could be done. > > Zstd would not be the first part of the kernel to > come from somewhere else, and have wrappers when > it gets integrated into the kernel. There certainly > is precedence there. > > It would be interesting to know what Christoph's > preference is. Yes, I think kernel wrappers would be a pretty sensible step forward. That also avoid the need to do strange upgrades to a new version, and instead we can just change APIs on a as-needed basis.
