Re: Driver supporting HW decompression and SW decompression

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Sat Mar 16 2024 - 00:40:37 EST


On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 05:26:21PM -0700, Chris Goldsworthy wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> If a compression driver were submitted upstream that used HW LZO decompression
> and SW LZO compression, could it be accepted? It would be geared towards
> decompressing boot images on IOT-type targets with exteremely limited secondary
> storage.

Who is the intended user in the kernel? In general, Crypto API
drivers will be accepted if there is at least one in-kernel user.

Thanks,
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