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Message-ID: <20150507031238.GC29395@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 11:12:38 +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 10/10] drivers/crypto/nx: add hardware 842 crypto comp alg
On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 12:51:06PM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote:
> Add crypto compression alg for 842 hardware compression and decompression.
>
> This crypto compression alg is named "nx842" to indicate it uses hardware
> to perform the compression and decompression, while the software 842
> compression alg is named "sw842". However, since before this split there
> was only one 842 compression alg named "842" which only used hardware,
> this is also aliased "842" for backwards compatibility.
This should still be called 842. You can set the driver name to
nx842 or 842-nx.
Cheers,
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