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SubjectRe: [PATCH v7] lib/crypto: blake2s: include as built-in
Hi Ard,

On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 6:03 PM Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> wrote:
> The only downside here is that the ARM/x86 accelerated shashes and the
> generic shash now use the same core transform, right? Given that the
> generic blake2s shash is never used for anything in the kernel, the
> only reason for its existence was to be able to use the randomized
> crypto testing infrastructure to test the arch code.
>
> Ergo, there is no point in retaining the blake2s shashes and we can
> simply remove all of them. (Note that blake2b is used as an shash via
> the crypto API by btrfs, but blake2s is only used via the library API)

That makes sense and is fine with me. Let's do that in a separate
commit later. I've got a bunch of things I'd like to fix up in the
general lib/crypto vs crypto split that are kind of interrelated.

Jason

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