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From:   Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 30 Aug 2023 14:52:39 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] crypto: Remove zlib-deflate
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 at 12:04, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> 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 <ardb@kernel.org>