Re: LZMA compression algorithm in Kernel - any chance to allow it?

[Stefan Richter]

Tomas M wrote:
>> The bad thing is, they won't tell you before you submitted it.
> 
> By 'they' you mean who?
> Who decides what is accepted anyway?

Major contributors (reviewers, maintainers) do, and ultimately Linus.

You said LZMA is already used by out-of-tree code in the embedded
domain.  So I suppose a submission of an LZMA implementation should
rather be part of a submission of code which actually uses it.
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