netdev - Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/18] crypto: Add generic Kerberos library

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Date:   Tue, 1 Dec 2020 21:36:59 +1100
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     bfields@...ldses.org, trond.myklebust@...merspace.com,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/18] crypto: Add generic Kerberos library

On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 09:12:38AM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> 
> That depends on whether the caller has passed it elsewhere for some other
> parallel purpose, but I think I'm going to have to go down that road and
> restore it afterwards.

Sure but even if you added it to the API the underlying
implementataions would just have to do the same thing.

Since this is particular to your use-case it's better to leave
the complexity where it's needed rather than propagting it to
all the crypto drivers.

Cheers,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
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