On Wed, 2020-04-29 at 21:36 +0200, Norbert Lange wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 29. April 2020 schrieb Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>: > > > On Tue, 2020-04-28 at 04:43 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Wed, 01 Apr 2020 09:05:22 +0200 Norbert Lange <nolange79@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > Package: initramfs-tools-core > > > > Version: 0.136 > > > > Severity: wishlist > > > > Tags: patch > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > there are Kernelpatches for zstandard initramfs support > > > > available for several years, and will hopefully accepted > > > > upstream soon. > > > > > > If the kernel doesn't yet support it, I'm not sure what the point of > > > supporting it in initramfs-tools is. > > [...] > > > > I see that the kernel support for this has been submitted recently, > > though it's not clear which maintainer is being asked to apply the > > patches. > > It's been submitted multiple times over the years, I don't know the lkml > workings, and apparently the author of these changes is missing some detail > too. > > Could you kindky point to what's missing? Sending the pull request directly > (not cc) to a maintainer? [...] There doesn't seem to be a nominated maintainer for lib/decompress*.c, but Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> has signed-off most of the changes there in the past few years. So I would suggest bringing the kernel patch series to his attention. (He only works with patches, not pull requests.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
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