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Date:   Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:35:20 -0700
From:   Dave Watson <davejwatson@...com>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
CC:     Ilya Lesokhin <ilyal@...lanox.com>,
        Aviad Yehezkel <aviadye@...lanox.com>,
        Boris Pismenny <borisp@...lanox.com>,
        Liran Liss <liranl@...lanox.com>,
        Matan Barak <matanb@...lanox.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>,
        <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>,
        <nmav@...tls.org>, <fridolin.pokorny@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 3/4] tls: kernel TLS support

On 06/16/17 01:58 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 11:37:39 -0700
> Dave Watson <davejwatson@...com> wrote:
> 
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/net/tls/Kconfig
> > @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
> > +#
> > +# TLS configuration
> > +#
> > +config TLS
> > +	tristate "Transport Layer Security support"
> > +	depends on NET
> > +	default m
> > +	---help---
> > +	Enable kernel support for TLS protocol. This allows symmetric
> > +	encryption handling of the TLS protocol to be done in-kernel.
> > +
> > +	If unsure, say M.
> 
> I understand that this will be useful to lots of people and most distributions
> will enable it. But the defacto policy in kernel configuration has been that
> new features in kernel default to being disabled.

Sure, will send a patch to switch to default n.