From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: algif for compression?
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 20:41:36 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140403124136.GA32279@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALZtONBFtCqQEfOgjNs_MqLm0xXP+9QK47a1t_HE4DuUBkxpsg@mail.gmail.com>
Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> wrote:
> I see the algif_hash and algif_blkcipher implementations to allow
> userspace AF_ALG socket access to kernel blkcipher and hash
> algorithms, but has anyone done a algif_compression to allow userspace
> access to compression algs? I'm asking specifically wrt the 842
> crypto module, which uses the hardware compression coprocessors on
> newer powerpc systems.
>
> If not, is there any reason against adding a algif_compression to
> provide the access?
For a start nx-842 isn't even hooked into the crypto layer so
there is no chance of exporting it through algif as is.
There is no reason why you couldn't add it of course but that'd
be a first step.
Cheers,
--
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-03 12:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-14 18:05 algif for compression? Dan Streetman
2014-04-03 12:41 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2014-04-03 18:03 ` Dan Streetman
2016-12-07 19:57 abed mohammad kamaluddin
2016-12-10 8:10 ` Herbert Xu
2016-12-16 14:11 ` abed mohammad kamaluddin
2016-12-21 8:52 ` Herbert Xu
2017-04-03 6:10 ` abed mohammad kamaluddin
2017-04-03 7:26 ` Stephan Müller
2017-04-03 8:41 ` abed mohammad kamaluddin
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