linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 13/15] crypto: iaa - Add support for default IAA 'canned' compression mode

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Date:   Wed, 24 May 2023 10:58:54 -0500
From:   Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, fenghua.yu@...el.com, vkoul@...nel.org,
        dave.jiang@...el.com, tony.luck@...el.com,
        wajdi.k.feghali@...el.com, james.guilford@...el.com,
        kanchana.p.sridhar@...el.com, giovanni.cabiddu@...el.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        dmaengine@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 13/15] crypto: iaa - Add support for default IAA
 'canned' compression mode

Hi Herbert,

On Wed, 2023-05-24 at 17:49 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 04:50:07PM -0500, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> .
> > To choose 'fixed' mode:
> > 
> >   echo "fixed" >  /sys/bus/dsa/drivers/crypto/compression_mode
> > 
> > To choose 'canned' mode:
> > 
> >   echo "canned" >  /sys/bus/dsa/drivers/crypto/compression_mode
> 
> This seems to be a strange way to switch modes.  How about just
> registering both algorithms and then let the user decide which
> one to use throught the algorithm name?
> 

Yes, I think you're right.  The reason we did it this way was that
we're expecting to add more modes, such as 'dynamic' and/or 'canned-
dynamic' etc.

But I don't see a reason we couldn't just register them all and have
the user choose using the algorithm names, especially if that's the way
crypto users expect things to work.

Thanks,

Tom