linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 6/9] zram: make stream find and release functions static

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Message-ID: <20150920233854.GA27729@bbox>
Date:	Mon, 21 Sep 2015 08:39:17 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:	Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/9] zram: make stream find and release functions
 static

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 02:19:21PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
> 
> Hide (make static) zstrm find and release function and introduce
> zcomp_compress_begin()/zcomp_compress_end(). We will have begin
> and end functions around compression (this patch) and decompression
> (next patch). So the work flow is evolving to:
> 
> 	zstrm = foo_begin();
> 	foo(zstrm);
> 	foo_end(zstrm);
> 
> where foo is compress or decompress zcomp functions.
> 
> This patch is a preparation to make crypto API-powered zcomp
> possible. The reasoning is that some crypto compression backends
> require zstrm for decompression.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>


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