Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: zram: add Crypto API support

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:16:36PM +0200, Piotr Sarna wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 07/30/2013 03:53 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 02:30:48PM +0200, Piotr Sarna wrote:
> >> Current version of zram does not allow any substitution of a default
> >> compression algorithm. Therefore, I decided to change the existing
> >> implementation of page compression by adding Crypto API compability.
> > 
> > As I have stated before, I want this code to get merged out of the
> > drivers/staging/ area _before_ any new features get added to it.  People
> > are taking too much time adding new stuff, like this, and no one seems
> > to be working to get it merged to the proper place anymore.
> > 
> 
> OK, but we actually need those features in order to test zram
> against other, competitive solutions - and then decide whether
> and how to merge it out of /drivers/staging.

Where is another "competitive solution" in the kernel?

And you are implying that as-is, zram isn't acceptable, right?  If so, I
should just delete it now as I was originally told otherwise, that's why
I merged it :(

> > So again, I'm going to have to say no to a new feature here, sorry.
> > zcache, zram, and zsmalloc need to get cleaned up and merged out of
> > staging before anything new can be added to them.
> > 
> > Or, if no one is working on that, I guess I can just delete them,
> > right?...
> > 
> 
> Is there any official TODO list of cleaning up and merging out zram?

As it came from the "zswap" code, there doesn't seem to be one :(

The code is over 2 years old now, with no percieved movement out of
staging.  If it doesn't get fixed up in the next kernel version or so, I
will have to remove it entirely.

sorry,

greg k-h