linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] crypto: testmgr: Allow different compression results

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Message-ID: <20180420165432.etiqksfiqsiecdgz@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:   Sat, 21 Apr 2018 00:54:32 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@...iumnetworks.com>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Mahipal Challa <mchalla@...ium.com>,
        Balakrishna Bhamidipati <bbhamidipati@...ium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: testmgr: Allow different compression results

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 01:58:40PM +0200, Jan Glauber wrote:
>
> Nice idea. Would a crypto_alloc_cipher("deflate", ...) pick the generic
> implementation or how can we select it?

For our ciphers we generally use the -generic suffix in the driver
name.  The compression algorithms seem to be all over the place on
this so we should fix them all to use the -generic suffix and then
we can simply append the -generic suffix here before allocating it.

Cheers,
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