[OLPC-devel] just verified: 2306 + olpc + linux kernel works.

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Thu May 25 21:18:24 EDT 2006


On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 03:12 +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Now that makes very much sense. I have a version of the LZMA decompression
> code which has been converted to Linux kernel coding style and will be
> sending that for review soon.
> 
> This leaves the problem that LZMA compression code is C++. Two ideas:
> * call lzma compressor as usermode helper (nasty!)
> * make lzma compressed files readonly (not modifiable, but deletable)
>   and give userspace the ability to directly write compressed lzma files.

Neither of those options work too well. What would it take to rewrite it
in C and make it conform to the Linux coding style too?

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dwmw2




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