Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Nov 2019 22:31:02 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 08/12] crypto: caam - support crypto_engine framework for SKCIPHER algorithms |
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On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 02:11:46PM +0000, Iuliana Prodan wrote: > > So, just to be clear, I shouldn't use crypto_async_request in driver code? > I see that this generic crypto request is used in multiple drivers.
I understand that a number of drivers do this in order to share common code. However, this is definitely not the preferred way of handling this. Ideally such code should be abstracted into a higher layer such as crypto_engine so that the driver itself never references these internal types.
> I can try sending _all_ requests to crypto engine and make some > performance measurements to see which solution is best.
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