linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] remove nx842.h from include/linux

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Message-ID: <20150615101909.GA32751@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Mon, 15 Jun 2015 18:19:09 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Dan Streetman <ddstreet@...e.org>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] remove nx842.h from include/linux

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 10:58:45AM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote:
> Now that the crypto/842.c driver does only software 842 comp/decomp,
> and the hardware crypto compressor for 842-nx is located in
> drivers/crypto/nx with the NX 842 hw driver, there's no reason for
> the nx842.h header to be located in include/linux/ anymore; nobody
> should use the NX 842 hw driver directly, everyone should use the
> crypto compression API.
> 
> The first patch moves the contents of include/linux/nx842.h into the
> existing drivers/crypto/nx/nx-842.h header file.  The second patch
> replaces the use of the NX842_MEM_COMPRESS define, since the 842-nx
> crypto compression driver can directly get the required working
> memory size from the NX 842 hw driver.
> 
> This cleans up include/linux/ by 1 file, and it saves some memory
> by reducing the 842-nx working memory size down to exactly what the
> NX 842 platform driver requires.
> 
> Dan Streetman (2):
>   crypto: move include/linux/nx842.h into drivers/crypto/nx/nx-842.h
>   crypto: replace NX842_MEM_COMPRESS with function

Both applied.
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