netdev - Re: [RFC] [PATCH 2/7] crypto: authenc

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Message-ID: <20090720075701.GC20288@secunet.com>
Date:	Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:57:01 +0200
From:	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 2/7] crypto: authenc - convert to ahash

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 02:55:14PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
> For the case at hand, as we've agreed to only do the chaining
> if there is only a single entry in the list, we don't need this
> at all.  All you need to do is copy the page pointer, offset and
> length without copying the raw scatterlist entry.
> 

Agreed for this case. What about the existing code, should we create an
interface for it?
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