Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] zram: introduce crypto-backend api

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Tue Nov 19 2024 - 22:15:46 EST


On (24/11/19 15:27), Alexey Romanov wrote:
> Since we use custom backend implementation, we remove the ability
> for users to use algorithms from crypto backend. This breaks
> backward compatibility, user doesn't necessarily use one of the
> algorithms from "custom" backends defined in zram folder.

Sorry, no, we are not adding this for a hypothetical scenario.

> For example, he can use some driver with hardware compression support.

Such as? Pretty much all H/W compression modules (I'm aware of)
that people use with zram are out-of-tree.