From: Dan Streetman Subject: algif for compression? Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:05:01 -0400 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 To: Herbert Xu , linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-we0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:64065 "EHLO mail-we0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754622AbaCNSFW (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:05:22 -0400 Received: by mail-we0-f174.google.com with SMTP id t60so2422026wes.19 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 11:05:21 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: I see the algif_hash and algif_blkcipher implementations to allow userspace AF_ALG socket access to kernel blkcipher and hash algorithms, but has anyone done a algif_compression to allow userspace access to compression algs? I'm asking specifically wrt the 842 crypto module, which uses the hardware compression coprocessors on newer powerpc systems. If not, is there any reason against adding a algif_compression to provide the access? Thanks!