linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3 00/19] zram: convert to custom compression API and allow algorithms tuning

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Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 05:43:51 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 00/19] zram: convert to custom compression API and
 allow algorithms tuning

On Wed, May 08, 2024 at 04:41:53PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> 	This patch set moves zram from crypto API to a custom compression
> API which allows us to tune and configure compression algorithms,
> something that crypto API, unfortunately, doesn't support.

[...]

>  21 files changed, 1203 insertions(+), 111 deletions(-)

Why can't it?  This is an awful lot of crazy code duplication just
to pass a few parameters.