Re: [PATCH 1/4] crypto: hisilicon/zip - Remove driver

Herbert Xu
2023-08-31T05:43:29Z

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 10:21:52AM +0800, Yang Shen wrote:
>
> It's a pity to see that there is no user in the kernel of zlib-deflate.
> However, there may still be hidden
> users in the current kernel who may be using the zlib-deflate algorithm.
> Such as zswap, it can use
> user-specified algorithm. So there are still some benefits to be gained from
> zlib hardware.

Perhaps you should try reconstructing the zlib header in your
driver so that it becomes capable of handling "deflate" data as
is rather than adding the non-standard "zlib-deflate" algorithm?

There is no way of getting the checksum without decompressing
the data first but perhaps your hardware could ignore checksum
errors?

> What's more, hisilicon zip driver also does other work besides supporting
> the zlib-deflate:
> 1.Support gzip algorithm.

We don't even have a generic "gzip" implementation so this should
never have gone into the kernel.

> 2.Support a user space cdev hisi-zip which can accelerate user space process
> via uacce subsystem.

Feel free to resubmit this as a new driver but it doesn't belong
in drivers/crypto.

Cheers,
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