Well, no, the ppp stuff needs it, and there's an ever-increasing number of
other places which need to decompress (ramdisks, for example, though that is
init).
At last count there were at least 4-5 separate copies of the gzip decompressor
in the kernel. I've got a patch to make a gzip (de)compression a general
library function and exporting it via the modules interface, and to change the
various users of it to just call the library. I was saving it up for 2.3, but
I guess there's some immediate use for it.
J
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