Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] zram: introduce crypto-api backend

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On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 03:27:13PM +0300, Alexey Romanov wrote:
> Since we use custom backend implementation, we remove the ability
> for users to use algorithms from crypto backend. This breaks
> backward compatibility, user doesn't necessarily use one of the
> algorithms from "custom" backends defined in zram folder.
> For example, he can use some driver with hardware compression support.
> 
> This patch adds opinion to enable Crypto API: add ZRAM_BACKEND_CRYPTO_API.
> Option is enabled by default, because in previously version of ZRAM
> it was possible to choose any alogirthm using Crypto API. This is
> also done for backward compatibility purposes.

Which crypto API algorithm do you care about?  You should probably
just add a backend for that instead of a double indirection.





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