linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] crypto: Add IV generation templates

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Date:   Wed, 18 Jul 2018 17:46:25 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Milan Broz <gmazyland@...il.com>
Cc:     Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@...wei.com>, agk@...hat.com,
        snitzer@...hat.com, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
        dm-devel@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, arnd@...db.de,
        jonathan.cameron@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] crypto: Add IV generation templates

On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:16:05AM +0200, Milan Broz wrote:

> So we are here again and moving INTERNAL dm-crypt functionality into
> cryptoapi.

> The TCW,LMK  IVs generator make sense only for dm-crypt 
> for compatible old disk encryption mappings.

> I strongly disagree to move this outside of dm-crypt.

> Sorry, the last discussion was that it remains inside dm-crypt
> and it will be only registered through crypto API.

Sorry, I'm partly to blame for this in that I asked Xiongfeng to pick up
Binoy Jayan's old patch set.  I seem to have missed that particular part
of the discussion and so haven't forwarded it on to him - do you have a
link, I can't seem to see it in my local archives of the prior
discussions but they might not be complete?

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