Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Nov 2014 09:04:06 +0100 | From | Steffen Klassert <> | Subject | Re: crypto: user - Allow get request with empty driver name |
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On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 03:45:26PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 08:11:42AM +0100, Steffen Klassert wrote: > > > > I think this is not sufficient, crypto_alg_match() will now return the first > > algorithm in crypto_alg_list that matches cra_name. We would need to extend > > crypto_alg_match() to return the algorithm with the highest priority in that > > case. > > It doesn't really matter because all implementations must provide > exactly the same set of parameters for a given algorithm so it's > good enough for what Stephan wants to do.
Ok, I see.
> But yes an interface to grab the highest priority algorithm would > be useful too so patches are welcome :)
Should be not too hard to return the highest priority algorithm instead of the first match with the existing interface, I'll see what I can do.
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