linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] crypto: Implement a generic crypto statistics

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Message-ID: <20180126154328.GA4002@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:   Fri, 26 Jan 2018 23:43:28 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     LABBE Corentin <clabbe@...libre.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, nhorman@...driver.com,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        smueller@...onox.de,
        Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] crypto: Implement a generic crypto statistics

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 09:58:13AM +0100, LABBE Corentin wrote:
>
> I have two way of adding a new netlink request
> - keep the current patch and simply add a new CRYPTO_MSG_GETSTAT which use the same function than CRYPTO_MSG_GETALG
> 	=> minimal changes, in fact CRYPTO_MSG_GETSTAT and CRYPTO_MSG_GETALG would be the same, but it is easy for userspace to test presence of stat.
> - Create a new CRYPTO_MSG_GETSTAT which imply lot of code and add a new crypto_user_stat.c
> 	=> this imply also to change makefile (rename crypto_user.c to crypto_user_base.c) since crypto_user.ko is made of two files.
> 
> Which one do you prefer ?

I think you should check with the crconf author, Steffen Klassert
since that will be affected by this change.

Thanks,
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