Hi Herbert, > I think we should convert ipcomp over to the new interface first > in order to make sure that we don't need to change the interface > which would be hard to do once we export it to user-space. Would it be acceptable if we export an algif interface using alg_type_compress, which is being used by ipcomp currently? We would like to use our zip device from userspace through this interface. Thanks Abed (Cavium) On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 12:04:53AM +0530, Abed Kamaluddin wrote: >> Hi Herbert, >> >> This patch adds compression support to the AF_ALG interface exported by the >> kernel crypto API. By extending AF_ALG, all compression algorithms of types >> scomp and acomp, which the kernel crypto API allows access to, are now also >> accessible from userspace. >> >> The new compression interface has been tested with both kernel software >> deflate(scomp) and HW accelerated ThunderX deflate(scomp) using the zpipe >> example application provided by zlib. > > I think we should convert ipcomp over to the new interface first > in order to make sure that we don't need to change the interface > which would be hard to do once we export it to user-space. > > Thanks, > -- > Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ > PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
