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From: "Nitin Gupta" <nitingupta910@gmail.com>
To: "Michael-Luke Jones" <mlj28@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Richard Purdie" <richard@openedhand.com>,
	linux-mm-cc@laptop.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] LZO de/compression support - take 3
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 19:33:36 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4cefeab80705230703vdb3c414s250a61c4c2d70c51@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <624FD7A7-5552-415F-96D8-4353453EA2A3@cam.ac.uk>

On 5/23/07, Michael-Luke Jones <mlj28@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Fair enough. However, this rather important issue is pretty much
> undocumented (source code comments don't count)

If header file for public interface (<linux/lzo1x.h> documents about
'unsafe' vs. 'safe' then it should be enough.

> and Reiser4 is
> already using the lzo1x_decompress() function rather than the
> seemingly more appropriate lzo1x_decompress_safe() function...
>
> http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-
> rc2/2.6.22-rc2-mm1/broken-out/reiser4-use-lzo-library-functions.patch
>
> Perhaps a rename is in order:
> lzo1x_decompress() => lzo1x_decompress_unsafe()
> lzo1x_decompress_safe => lzo1x_decompress()
>

Or perhaps make reiserfs use _safe() instead - I think Richard has
already submitted patch for same.

- Nitin

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-23 14:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-23  8:27 Nitin Gupta
2007-05-23 10:53 ` Michael-Luke Jones
2007-05-23 11:39   ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-23 13:57     ` Michael-Luke Jones
2007-05-23 14:03       ` Nitin Gupta [this message]
2007-05-23 14:10         ` Michael-Luke Jones
2007-05-23 14:21           ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-23 14:33             ` Michael-Luke Jones
2007-05-24 22:41               ` Richard Purdie
2007-05-24 22:54                 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-24 23:00                   ` Richard Purdie
2007-05-23 16:16             ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-23 16:49               ` Richard Purdie
2007-05-24  4:04                 ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-25 10:42                   ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-26 10:23                     ` Michael-Luke Jones
2007-05-26 11:17                     ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-23 14:50 ` Bret Towe
2007-05-24 13:48   ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-25  2:38     ` Bret Towe
2007-05-25  5:10       ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-25 17:02         ` Bret Towe
2007-05-25 17:33           ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-26 11:30           ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-27  3:39             ` Bret Towe
2007-05-23 19:34 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-24  4:37   ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-24 10:49     ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-24  8:25   ` Richard Purdie
2007-05-24 11:07     ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-24 14:29       ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-24 19:12         ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-24 14:20     ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-24 20:09       ` Satyam Sharma

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