> 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.
Actually there's not - neither of the .config-in-proc patches that have
been posted lately actually use or want to use in-kernel decompression,
nor are they in any imminent danger of being included in 2.2 <sigh>. But a
kernel compression library interface sounds great.
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