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Message-ID: <20150813072917.GA21449@gondor.apana.org.au> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 15:29:18 +0800 From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> To: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>, Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>, Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] crypto: export crypto_alg_list and rwsem On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 04:30:31PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote: > > How about introducing new functions to search supported algorithm in > kernel-side? As crypto API is used in more places, this interface > would be requested more. Defined list weaken the advantage of strong > point of generic crypto API. You're only getting the list so you can immediately reexport it to user-space, with no added value whatsoever. As I said we already have an interface for that so you should use it. If more genuine uses come up then I will reconsider. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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