Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Oct 2022 17:03:31 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v0 3/8] crypto: hbk flags & info added to the tfm |
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On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 09:15:48AM -0600, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > > Do you mean to say that other drivers that use hardware-backed keys do > so by setting "cra_name" to something particular? Like instead of "aes" > it'd be "aes-but-special-for-this-driver"? If so, that would seem to > break the design of the crypto API. Which driver did you see that does > this? Or perhaps, more generally, what are the drivers that Herbert is > talking about when he mentions the "plenty of existing drivers" that > already do this?
Grep for paes for the existing drivers that support this. I don't have anything against this feature per se, but the last thing we want is a proliferation of different ways of doing the same thing.
Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
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