Re: [PATCH v2 01/11] crypto: Documentation - crypto API high level spec

[Tom Lendacky]

On 11/03/2014 08:49 AM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 03:18:29PM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> > > > + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_DIGEST	Raw message digest
> > > > + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_HASH		Alias for CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_DIGEST
> > > > + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_SHASH	Synchronous multi-block hash
> > > > + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_AHASH	Asynchronous multi-block hash
> > > > + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_RNG		Random Number Generation
> > > > + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_PCOMPRESS
> > >
> > > What's that last one?
> >
> > Same here.
>
> pcompress is an enhanced version of compress allowing for piece-meal
> compression/decompression rather than having to shove everything in
> all at once.
>
> Eventually pcompress should replace the compress interface once
> everything is converted across.

Herbert, I was looking at adding async support for ALG_TYPE_COMPRESS
since the CCP device will support compression/decompression but only
as an everything at once invocation.  Given what you're saying about
pcompress replacing compress, would this be something you'd even
consider though?

Thanks,
Tom

> Thanks,
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