2023-08-30 18:52:55

by Herbert Xu

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Subject: [PATCH 0/4] crypto: Remove zlib-deflate

On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 05:10:08PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
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> Later on someone added "zlib-deflate" to the Crypto API which does
> emit the zlib header/trailer. It appears to be completely unused
> and it was only added because certain hardware happened be able to
> emit the same header/trailer. We should remove zlib-defalte
> and all the driver implementations of it from the Crypto API.

This patch series removes all implementations of zlib-deflate from
the Crypto API because they have no users in the kernel.

Cheers,
--
Email: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
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2023-08-30 18:52:54

by Ard Biesheuvel

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] crypto: Remove zlib-deflate

On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 at 12:04, Herbert Xu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 05:10:08PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> >
> > Later on someone added "zlib-deflate" to the Crypto API which does
> > emit the zlib header/trailer. It appears to be completely unused
> > and it was only added because certain hardware happened be able to
> > emit the same header/trailer. We should remove zlib-defalte
> > and all the driver implementations of it from the Crypto API.
>
> This patch series removes all implementations of zlib-deflate from
> the Crypto API because they have no users in the kernel.
>

Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>

2023-08-31 00:18:40

by Linus Torvalds

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] crypto: Remove zlib-deflate

On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 at 03:04, Herbert Xu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This patch series removes all implementations of zlib-deflate from
> the Crypto API because they have no users in the kernel.

Lovely. Thanks,

Linus