On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 03:06:16PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 20:47:31 +0900 Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > This is the third version. In this version, Some codes are fixed > > and more description and note are added. I would like to thank David Sterba > > for his review. > > > > The Last patch[5/5] of the patch set is for making x86 and arm default to > > LZ4-compressed for testing the LZ4 code in the linux-next. > > It was requested by Andrew Morton in the patch set v2. > > > > Currently, A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is supported. > > However, It is expected that we will have a tool with more features > > once its format is finished. > > What happened to the changelog? The earlier version at least had some > rudimentary benchmarking results, but now we don't even have that. > > Someone should prepare the information explaining why we added this to > Linux, and I'd prefer that person be you rather than me! Certainly it > should include performance measurements - both speed and space. Also > it should capture our thinking regarding all the other decompressors, > explaining why we view it as acceptable to add yet another one. Sorry, It will have all the information you mentioned. I can reply to this thread if you want. Or I might need another patch(v4). I have one thing to be confirmed regarding LZ4 format. One of the patch set needs to be fixed if there is a change. After that I can include the information in the changelog. > Please, put yourself in the position of someone reading these commits > in 2017 wondering "why did they merge this". We should tell them. Thanks, Kyungsik -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
