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Re: bsd_comp errors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marek Michalkiewicz)
Fri Jul 26 03:40:42 1996
From: Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl>
To: sspoon@clemson.edu
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 03:09:41 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: aonline@access.tnet.com.au, john@nlc.net.au, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199607222139.RAA01798@chaos.holmes.clemson.edu> from "Lex Spoon" at Jul 22, 96 05:39:07 pm
Lex Spoon:
> * Because of patent problems, we return DECOMP_ERROR for errors
> * found by inspecting the input data and for system problems, but
> * DECOMP_FATALERROR for any errors which could possibly be said to
> * be being detected "after" decompression. For DECOMP_ERROR,
> * we can issue a CCP reset-request; for DECOMP_FATALERROR, we may be
> * infringing a patent of Motorola's if we do, so we take CCP down
Hmm, aren't we already infringing the Unisys LZW compression patent
anyway? Looks like we really need CONFIG_USA in 2.1... (also for
things like delayed ordered writes if they are ever implemented)
Marek
