linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] crypto: hisilicon: Add HiSilicon ZIP accelerator support

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Date:   Fri, 18 Jan 2019 18:09:26 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Zhou Wang <wangzhou1@...ilicon.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxarm@...wei.com,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] crypto: hisilicon: Add HiSilicon ZIP accelerator
 support

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 03:55:05PM +0800, Zhou Wang wrote:
>
> However, another question is that seems other subsystems in kernel,
> e.g. zswap still use crypto_alloc_comp. So we'd better register this
> ZIP engine using both cryto_alloc_comp and scomp/acomp interface to
> make it compatible with other subsystems?

Existing users should switch over to acomp.  We're not adding any
more new algorithms to the legacy compress interface.

Thanks,
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