abed mohammad kamaluddin <abedamu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > We are also looking for user-space access to the kernel crypto layer > compression algorithms. I have gone through AF_ALG but couldn’t find > support for compression ops through it. This is required for our > hardware zip engines whose driver hooks up to the crypto layer. > > I was going through the lists and stumbled across this thread. Has > there been any updates or efforts put up in this direction since this > thread is a few years old. If not, are there any alternate > implementations that allow user-space access to compression? I have > gone through cryptodev and see the same limitation there. > > Would appreciate any pointers in this regard. The compression interface is currently in a state of flux. We should make it settle down first before exporting it to user-space. For a start it would be good to actually switch IPsec/IPcomp over to the new compression interface. 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
