Re: [PATCH 5/9] btrfs: zstd: Switch to the zstd-1.4.6 API

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 10:20:52AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> It???s not completely clear what you???re asking for here.  If the API
> matches what???s in zstd-1.4.6, that seems like a reasonable way to label
> it.  That???s what the upstream is for this code.
> 
> I???m also not sure why we???re taking extra time to shit on the zstd
> userspace package.  Can we please be constructive or at least actionable?

Because it really doesn't matter that these crappy APIs he is
introducing match anything, especially not something done as horribly
as the zstd API.  We'll need to do this properly, and claiming
compliance to some version of this lousy API is completely irrelevant
for the kernel.