[PATCH v2] staging: erofs: add SPDX identifer

Gao Xiang gaoxiang25 at huawei.com
Mon Oct 8 14:48:18 UTC 2018


Hi Greg,

On 2018/10/8 22:43, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 10:36:39PM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> On 2018/10/8 22:22, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> Why delete that line?
>>>
>>> But wait, why do we even have this file at all?  What's wrong with the
>>> lib/lz4/ code that we have in the kernel today?  Shouldn't the code
>>> using these files be moved over to use the lib/ code instead and this
>>> file be deleted?
>>
>> EROFS uses customized LZ4 decompression code for now (which has been offically
>> supported in lz4 1.8.3, I have updated it in
>> https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/lib-lz4-update-lz4-decompressor-module.patch
>> if it is shown up in Linux 4.20, I will remove all the customized LZ4 decompression code),
>> but lib/ code lz4def.h isn't export to include/.
> 
> It should show up in 4.20, so you should be able to remove this all
> then.

Yes, that is correct. I will fix it in 4.20 if the updated LZ4 is already there. :)

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 


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