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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] zram: use crypto api to check alg availability
Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 16:43:45 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160527084345.GA16022@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160527082744.GH2322@bbox>

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 05:27:44PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
>
> Yes, it might be trivial to adding new "string" into the backend array
> if we consider frequency of adding new compressoin algorithm in linux
> but it would be better if we can get names of supported compression
> algorithm name by crypto API.
> 
> If it's not good idea or something hard to implement, let's go with
> hardcoding.
> 
> Herbert, Could you give us thought?

It is fundamentally impossible to get a list of all *potential*
algorithms if you allow loadable modules.  By definition someone
could load a new module and thus introduce a new algorithm.

Given a specific algorithm name you could determine whether it
is present on the system.

Cheers,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-27  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-25 14:29 [PATCH 0/7] zram: switch to crypto api Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-05-25 14:30 ` [PATCH 1/7] zram: rename zstrm find-release functions Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-05-26  0:44   ` Minchan Kim
2016-05-26  1:07     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-05-25 14:30 ` [PATCH 2/7] zram: switch to crypto compress API Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-05-27  4:22   ` Minchan Kim
2016-05-27  7:59     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-05-25 14:30 ` [PATCH 3/7] zram: drop zcomp param from compress/decompress Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-05-27  4:22   ` Minchan Kim
2016-05-27  7:31     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-05-25 14:30 ` [PATCH 4/7] zram: align zcomp interface to crypto comp API Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-05-27  4:31   ` Minchan Kim
2016-05-27  8:00     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-05-25 14:30 ` [PATCH 5/7] zram: use crypto api to check alg availability Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-05-27  4:43   ` Minchan Kim
2016-05-27  7:50     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-05-27  8:27       ` Minchan Kim
2016-05-27  8:43         ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2016-05-27  9:04           ` Minchan Kim
2016-05-29  3:24             ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-05-30  4:47               ` Minchan Kim
2016-05-30  4:57                 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-05-25 14:30 ` [PATCH 6/7] zram: delete custom lzo/lz4 Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-05-25 14:30 ` [PATCH 7/7] zram: add more compression algorithms Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-05-26  0:43 ` [PATCH 0/7] zram: switch to crypto api Joonsoo Kim
2016-05-26  1:12   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-05-26  1:52     ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-05-26  0:52 ` Minchan Kim
2016-05-26  1:08   ` Sergey Senozhatsky

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