Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] lib: Update LZ4 compressor module

2017-01-24 Thread Sven Schmidt
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 04:23:57PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 20:35:14 +0100 Sven Schmidt > <4ssch...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> wrote: > > > This patch updates LZ4 kernel module to LZ4 v1.7.3 by Yann Collet. > > The kernel module is inspired by the previous work by Chanho

Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] lib: Update LZ4 compressor module

2017-01-23 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 20:35:14 +0100 Sven Schmidt <4ssch...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> wrote: > This patch updates LZ4 kernel module to LZ4 v1.7.3 by Yann Collet. > The kernel module is inspired by the previous work by Chanho Min. > The updated LZ4 module will not break existing code since there we

[PATCH v4 1/4] lib: Update LZ4 compressor module

2017-01-22 Thread Sven Schmidt
This patch updates LZ4 kernel module to LZ4 v1.7.3 by Yann Collet. The kernel module is inspired by the previous work by Chanho Min. The updated LZ4 module will not break existing code since there were alias methods added to ensure backwards compatibility. API changes: New method LZ4_compress_fas