From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:04:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] Add zlib decompress helper functions
Message-ID: <e5bfff550801101404g488354f5rb05cccf0923fbb9c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801101351250.3148@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Jan 10, 2008 10:57 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Marco Costalba wrote:
> >
> > When decompressing a zlib stream use this
> > helpers instead of calling low level zlib
> > function.
>
> I really *really* hate your naming.
>

I agree 100% it was chosen only to keep zlib conventions.

>
> [ How many people really know that "inflate" means "uncompress", without
>   having to think about it a bit?
>

I misnamed the whole patch series but the last one due to deflate
being tot intuitive !!!

Ok I wrote the e-mails very quickly and cut and paste was heavily
involved, but when I realized that I called all the series 'decompress
helpers' I went blush!

Marco