linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] squashfs: Make SquashFS 4 use the new pcomp crypto interface

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Message-ID: <6934efce0902181624q57f3423dm50cda218781e4399@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:24:29 -0800
From:	Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@...il.com>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com>
Cc:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Phillip Lougher <phillip@...gher.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] squashfs: Make SquashFS 4 use the new pcomp crypto 
	interface

> Modify SquashFS 4 to use the new "pcomp" crypto interface for decompression,
> instead of calling the underlying zlib library directly. This simplifies e.g.
> the addition of support for hardware decompression and different decompression
> algorithms.


Geert,

When did this become an option?  I thought zlib in the crypto
interface was not compatible with zlib.  Is that not the case anymore?
 Have you looked at AXFS enough to judge if this would be as easy a
job as it looks to convert?


How do you get from here to supporting alternate compressors?
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