From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: "deflate" crypto module questions Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:19:25 +0800 Message-ID: <20080627011924.GA3245@gondor.apana.org.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: jmorris@namei.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org To: Geert Uytterhoeven Return-path: Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:33138 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750865AbYF0BTb (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:19:31 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 06:07:29PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > But it also means it's not so easy to avoid allocating the compression buffer > if you need decompression only. Or am I missing something? Well there are ways to solve this, e.g., by creating new interfaces that are compression or decompression only. What application do you have in mind? Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt