[PATCH RFC 9/9] MAINTAINERS: add an entry for the LZ4 compression library

Michal Wilczynski m.wilczynski at samsung.com
Sat Oct 3 15:45:05 PDT 2026



On 9/25/26 23:39, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 01:27:39PM +0200, Michal Wilczynski wrote:
>> lib/lz4/ has never had one: get_maintainer.pl returns only the LKML
>> fallback for every file in it, including include/linux/lz4.h, which eight
>> subsystems build against.
>>
>> This matters more now than it did. With the previous patches lib/lz4 is
>> vendored upstream sources, and someone has to bump them to new upstream
>> releases and decide what the kernel-side glue may do. I am willing to do
>> that, so add myself as its maintainer.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michal Wilczynski <m.wilczynski at samsung.com>
>> ---
>>  MAINTAINERS | 6 ++++++
>>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> index cc3cae2e378b34aeb705cef654c720ca9f2ba223..989e1b5fab21432dd7042d1e60c4bbad85beb925 100644
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> @@ -15606,6 +15606,12 @@ S:	Supported
>>  F:	drivers/net/pcs/pcs-lynx.c
>>  F:	include/linux/pcs-lynx.h
>>  
>> +LZ4 COMPRESSION LIBRARY
>> +M:	Michal Wilczynski <m.wilczynski at samsung.com>
>> +S:	Maintained
>> +F:	include/linux/lz4.h
>> +F:	lib/lz4/
>> +
> 
> Should this entry cover lib/decompress_unlz4.c and
> include/linux/decompress/unlz4.h as well?

Yes I'll add both in v2.
Thanks a lot for looking at the series as a whole.

> 
> - Eric
> 

Best regards,
-- 
Michal Wilczynski <m.wilczynski at samsung.com>



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