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Message-ID: <20100121091059.GA14808@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:10:59 +1300
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Li Yewang <lyw@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][XFRM] Use the simple name when adding SAD with ip xfrm
	state

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 01:22:17PM +0800, Li Yewang wrote:
> Sorry, I am new to crypto.
> 
> I searched the soucre code in the directory of /crypto,
> and found that, all cryptos use shortname, for example:
> 
> crypto/xcbc.c
> static struct crypto_template crypto_xcbc_tmpl = {
>         .name = "xcbc",
>         .create = xcbc_create,
>         .free = shash_free_instance,
>         .module = THIS_MODULE,
> };

No this is a template name, not an algorithm name.  IOW if you
try to allocate it won't exist.  You need to use it together
with parameters, e.g., xcbc(aes).

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