Re: [PATCH] Really *do* nothing in while loop

[Thomas Glanzmann]

Hello,

> >-		/* nothing */
> >+		/* nothing */;

> Well, the lack of semicolon is wrong really (and funny).

yes, it is but harmless in this envrionment.

> But is the whole while loop needed at all?  deflate()
> consumes as much input as it can, producing as much output
> as it can.  So without the loop, and without updating the
> buffer pointers ({next,avail}_{in,out}) it will do just
> fine without the loop, and will return something != Z_OK
> on next iteration.  If this is to mean to flush output,
> it should be deflate(&stream, Z_FLUSH) or something.

I have no idea.

> P.S.  What's git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx for ?

It is the list which handles GIT related discussions. Frontend/backend
and isn't kernel related.

	Thomas
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