* Geert Uytterhoeven | 2008-06-26 09:14:51 [+0200]:

>On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Sebastian Siewior wrote:
>> see. Other zlib users like ppp or jffs2 user zlib directly. However, the
>> crypto API is the only place in kernel which provides you a generic
>> interface for compression.
>
>Indeed. So if a hardware-assisted deflate would be available as a crypto
>module, "deflate" crypto module users would benefit from it automatically,
>right? While direct zlib users are out of luck.
Haven't look at this from that perspective but yes. This is allready the
case for crypto HW.

>With kind regards,
>
>Geert Uytterhoeven
>Software Architect

Sebastian
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