Re: [PATCH 7/7] lib/lzo: separate lzo-rle from lzo

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Thu Nov 29 2018 - 22:05:07 EST


On (11/29/18 10:21), Dave Rodgman wrote:
> > [..]
> >> +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
> >> @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
> >>
> >> static const char * const backends[] = {
> >> "lzo",
> >> + "lzo-rle",
> >> #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CRYPTO_LZ4)
> >> "lz4",
> >> #endif
> >
> > [..]
> >
> >> +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> >> @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static DEFINE_IDR(zram_index_idr);
> >> static DEFINE_MUTEX(zram_index_mutex);
> >>
> >> static int zram_major;
> >> -static const char *default_compressor = "lzo";
> >> +static const char *default_compressor = "lzo-rle";
> >
> > OK, so it's not just "separate lzo-rle", it's also "switch zram to
> > a new compression algorithm by default". I'd say that usually I'd
> > expect this to be separate patches.
>
> Yes, fair point. akpm has picked this up now though, so probably a bit
> late to break it out into a separate patch?

Andrew accepts patches to patches, and patches to patches to patches, etc.
He is very flexible :)

I don't have a very strong opinion. Would probably be better to split
it, tho. Let's hear from Minchan.

-ss