From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 0/1] *** crypto: AF_ALG: add compression support *** Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 16:00:38 +0800 Message-ID: <20170420080038.GB6780@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <1492108494-10694-1-git-send-email-akamaluddin@cavium.com> <20170414083240.GA26625@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, "akamaluddin@cavium.com" , pathreya@cavium.com, mchalla@cavium.com To: abed mohammad kamaluddin Return-path: Received: from [198.176.57.175] ([198.176.57.175]:56966 "EHLO deadmen.hmeau.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764735AbdDTIBn (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2017 04:01:43 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 12:39:58PM +0530, abed mohammad kamaluddin wrote: > Hi Herbert, > > > I think we should convert ipcomp over to the new interface first > > in order to make sure that we don't need to change the interface > > which would be hard to do once we export it to user-space. > > Would it be acceptable if we export an algif interface using alg_type_compress, > which is being used by ipcomp currently? We would like to use our zip > device from > userspace through this interface. No we're not going to export an obsolete interface. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt