Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the crypto tree

From: Barry Song
Date: Tue Mar 12 2024 - 22:12:36 EST


> The only user of comp_alg_common was the crypto stats, and it was introduced by
> a refactoring of the crypto stats (commit 0a742389bcc0, "crypto: acomp - Count
> error stats differently"), so it seems appropriate to remove it for now.
>
> If you could go through my patch and explain what other unused code related to
> the crypto stats you might consider to be "infrastructure" that should not be
> removed, that would be helpful.

Hi Eric,
that user is mm/zswap [1], apologize it was not in crypto tree. I guess you might
just need a new version to keep that one :-)

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20240222081135.173040-2-21cnbao@xxxxxxxxx/

> - Eric

Thanks
Barry