linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/17] Add zinc using existing algorithm implementations

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Date:   Mon, 25 Mar 2019 11:45:21 +0100
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:     Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Paul Crowley <paulcrowley@...gle.com>,
        Greg Kaiser <gkaiser@...gle.com>,
        Samuel Neves <samuel.c.p.neves@...il.com>,
        Tomer Ashur <tomer.ashur@...t.kuleuven.be>,
        Martin Willi <martin@...ongswan.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/17] Add zinc using existing algorithm implementations

On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 11:43 AM Ard Biesheuvel
<ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org> wrote:
> onto a synchronous interface. My concern is that we will end up with
> Zinc patches 12 months from now that implement async interfaces to
> support some particular piece of hardware, while other hardware is
> only supported by the crypto/ API, even though the algorithm they
> implement is the same.

Allow me to allay that concern: Zinc is for simple synchronous
software functions.