On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dan Streetman <ddstreet@xxxxxxxx> 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. Wait, isn't it? The crypto/842.c driver connects right to it. Well, it connects to the compression part of it, but that's the only part I'm looking at exporting to userspace right now. > There is no reason why you couldn't add it of course but that'd > be a first step. > > Cheers, > -- > Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ > PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
