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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 2/2] crypto: engine - Permit to enqueue skcipher request
On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 09:52:57PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 01:15:36PM +0200, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 02:48:37PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 09:55:24AM +0200, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Since there are two different user of "crypto engine + ablkcipher", it will be not easy to convert them in one serie. (I could do it, but I simply could not test it for OMAP (lack of hw))
> > > > And any new user which want to use crypto engine+skcipher (like me with the sun8i-ce driver) are simply stuck.
> > >
> > > You're right. We'll need to do this in a backwards-compatible way. In fact
> > > we already do something similar in skcipher.c itself. Simply look at the
> > > cra_type field and if it matches blkcipher/ablkcipher/givcipher then it's
> > > legacy ablkcipher, otherwise it's skcipher.
> > >
> > > Also the way crypto_engine looks at the request type in the data-path is
> > > suboptimal. This should really be built into the cra_type object. For
> > > example, we can have cra_type->engine->prepare_request which would just
> > > do the right thing.
> > >
> >
> > Not sure to have well understand what you want.
> > You want that I switch on cra_type instead of crypto_tfm_alg_type() ?
>
> No I mean that we should have an engine hooks object registered
> under cra_type so that you simply call
>
> cra_type->engine->prepare_request()
>
> regardless of what type you're using.
>

I am sorry, I didnt see how to do that.

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