linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/10] crypto: change 842 alg to use software

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Date:	Thu, 7 May 2015 11:07:17 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Dan Streetman <ddstreet@...e.org>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Seth Jennings <sjennings@...iantweb.net>,
	Robert Jennings <rob@...hix.net>, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/10] crypto: change 842 alg to use software

On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 12:51:00PM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote:
> Change the crypto 842 compression alg to use the software 842 compression
> and decompression library.  Change the name of this crypto alg to "sw842".
> Remove the fallback to LZO compression.

That's not how the name works.  All implementations of 842 should
bear that name.  They should differentiate themselves based on
cra_driver_name.  For example, we generally call the software
implementation of foo "foo-generic".

Cheers,
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