From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] crypto: Add a zlib crypto module Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:39:57 +0100 Message-ID: <1220078397.7107.433.camel@pmac.infradead.org> References: <20080829134158.108976037@vixen.sonytel.be> <20080829134418.874948211@vixen.sonytel.be> <20080830062315.GA18441@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, squashfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Herbert Xu Return-path: Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:50962 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751266AbYH3Gtl (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:49:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080830062315.GA18441@gondor.apana.org.au> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 16:23 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 01:41:59PM +0000, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > From: Geert Uytterhoeven > > > > Add a (de)compression module for the "zlib" format using the crypto API. > > I think we can safely conclude that our current compression > interface sucks for what you're trying to achieve :) The main thing that's missing for JFFS2 is "Compress as much of this as you can into X bytes" -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation