From: Jared Hulbert Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] squashfs: Make SquashFS 4 use the new pcomp crypto interface Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:24:29 -0800 Message-ID: <6934efce0902181624q57f3423dm50cda218781e4399@mail.gmail.com> References: <1234972402-24298-1-git-send-email-Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> <1234972402-24298-2-git-send-email-Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> <1234972402-24298-3-git-send-email-Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> <1234972402-24298-4-git-send-email-Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> <1234972402-24298-5-git-send-email-Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> <1234972402-24298-6-git-send-email-Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Herbert Xu , linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Phillip Lougher To: Geert Uytterhoeven Return-path: Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.170]:54145 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751678AbZBSAYa (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:24:30 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1234972402-24298-6-git-send-email-Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > Modify SquashFS 4 to use the new "pcomp" crypto interface for decompression, > instead of calling the underlying zlib library directly. This simplifies e.g. > the addition of support for hardware decompression and different decompression > algorithms. Geert, When did this become an option? I thought zlib in the crypto interface was not compatible with zlib. Is that not the case anymore? Have you looked at AXFS enough to judge if this would be as easy a job as it looks to convert? How do you get from here to supporting alternate compressors?