Keeping the author of compcache happy.

[John McCabe-Dansted]

Nitin wrote:
"I recently installed the latest release of Ubuntu (9.10 aka Karmic
Koala) and was disappointed to find an ancient version of
compcache/ramzswap installed by default. ... full support is expected
no sooner than kernel 2.6.34. ..."
  -- http://www.google.com/buzz/105127892700311175215/3DAusnPnjdU/Memory-Compression-support-for-various-Linux

I am using compcache to allow me to swap onto compressed ram and am
having to recompile the kernel to have compcache free() unused swap
pages. As Nitin notes the patch required has been in -mm for a while
and is well tested, additionally it only adds a couple of lines of
code excluding the compcache driver, which can be compiled and
packaged (or not) separately.

We have passed the last Alpha so I am not sure that even trivial
kernel patches are reasonable at this point, but it seems could at
least we could say that Ubuntu 10.10 is likely to ship with .34* as
.33 is already out and kernels tend to be released every 2-3 months?

* And.34 will be more-or-less officially supported on Lucid servers thanks to:
   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/specs/KernelLucidNewKernelonLTS

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted