netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 04/21] net: ipcomp: Migrate to acomp API from deprecated comp API

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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 10:11:56 +0100
From: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 04/21] net: ipcomp: Migrate to acomp API from
 deprecated comp API

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 02:58:30PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Migrate the IPcomp network compression code to the acomp API, in order
> to drop the dependency on the obsolete 'comp' API which is going away.
> 
> For the time being, this is a rather mechanical conversion replacing
> each comp TFM object with an acomp TFM/request object pair - this is
> necessary because, at this point, there is still a 1:1 relation between
> acomp tranforms and requests in the acomp-to-scomp adaptation layer, and

nit: tranforms -> transforms

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