[PATCH 10/10] drivers/crypto/nx: add hardware 842 crypto comp alg

Herbert Xu herbert at gondor.apana.org.au
Thu May 7 13:12:38 AEST 2015


On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 12:51:06PM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote:
> Add crypto compression alg for 842 hardware compression and decompression.
> 
> This crypto compression alg is named "nx842" to indicate it uses hardware
> to perform the compression and decompression, while the software 842
> compression alg is named "sw842".  However, since before this split there
> was only one 842 compression alg named "842" which only used hardware,
> this is also aliased "842" for backwards compatibility.

This should still be called 842.  You can set the driver name to
nx842 or 842-nx.

Cheers,
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