Re: [PATCH] crypto: acomp: export all scomp interfaces

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Fri Oct 28 2016 - 06:37:03 EST


On Thursday, October 27, 2016 10:03:29 PM CEST Giovanni Cabiddu wrote:
> Hi Arnd,
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 04:09:49PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > The newly added scomp/acomp interface has a couple of functions
> > that should be exported to allow linking the two drivers
> > as loadable modules:
> >
> > ERROR: "crypto_acomp_scomp_free_ctx" [crypto/acompress.ko] undefined!
> > ERROR: "crypto_acomp_scomp_alloc_ctx" [crypto/acompress.ko] undefined!
> > ERROR: "crypto_init_scomp_ops_async" [crypto/acompress.ko] undefined!
> These functions were not exported on purpose. They should not be called
> by other modules.
>
> > Alternatively, both of them could be combined into one loadable module.
> I think this is the correct approach. Here is a patch with an
> alternative fix: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9396503/

Yes, your patch is exactly what I had in mind as the alternative,
looks good to me.

Arnd