From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>,
Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Subject: Re: [v3 PATCH 0/8] crypto: Convert all AEAD users to new interface
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 11:00:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1432717240.2159.5.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150527083911.GA27432@gondor.apana.org.au>
On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 16:39 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:15:50AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> >
> > Do you think it'd be feasible at all to somehow override the
> > aead_request_set_crypt() and aead_request_set_ad() functions or so to do
> > something that works on older kernels (and thus older crypto subsystems)
> > or do you think I just shouldn't bother looking at that and just add
> > ifdefs to "undo" your changes in this series on older kernels?
>
> Another option is to backport the new interface to the older kernel.
>
> You only need something like
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/6452601/
>
> for the older kernel to support the new interface along with the
> old interface.
Right. Unfortunately, I can't typically rely on being able to make
changes to the kernel our driver is built against, and I don't think we
could do these changes otherwise.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-27 9:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-21 10:39 [PATCH 0/7] crypto: Convert all AEAD users to new interface Herbert Xu
2015-05-21 10:43 ` [PATCH 1/7] crypto: testmgr - Switch to new AEAD interface Herbert Xu
2015-05-21 10:43 ` [PATCH 2/7] xfrm: Add IV generator information to xfrm_algo_desc Herbert Xu
2015-05-21 10:43 ` [PATCH 3/7] ipsec: Add IV generator information to xfrm_state Herbert Xu
2015-05-21 10:43 ` [PATCH 4/7] esp4: Switch to new AEAD interface Herbert Xu
2015-05-21 10:44 ` [PATCH 5/7] esp6: " Herbert Xu
2015-05-22 6:40 ` Stephan Mueller
2015-05-22 6:45 ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-22 7:16 ` Stephan Mueller
2015-05-22 7:19 ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-26 6:39 ` Stephan Mueller
2015-05-26 7:02 ` Stephan Mueller
2015-05-26 7:21 ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-26 7:37 ` Stephan Mueller
2015-05-26 7:38 ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-26 7:40 ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-26 7:56 ` Stephan Mueller
2015-05-26 7:57 ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-26 8:15 ` Stephan Mueller
2015-05-26 8:18 ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-26 8:27 ` Stephan Mueller
2015-05-21 10:44 ` [PATCH 6/7] mac802154: " Herbert Xu
2015-05-21 10:44 ` [PATCH 7/7] mac80211: " Herbert Xu
2015-05-21 11:20 ` Johannes Berg
2015-05-21 11:50 ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-21 12:17 ` Johannes Berg
2015-05-22 4:11 ` Herbert Xu
2015-06-01 13:21 ` Stephan Mueller
2015-06-01 13:42 ` Johannes Berg
2015-06-01 13:49 ` Stephan Mueller
2015-06-01 14:05 ` Johannes Berg
2015-06-01 14:35 ` Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <1433169326.3505.12.camel-cdvu00un1VgdHxzADdlk8Q@public.gmane.org>
2015-06-01 15:36 ` Stephan Mueller
2015-06-01 15:36 ` Stephan Mueller
2015-06-02 9:15 ` Jouni Malinen
2015-06-02 9:15 ` Jouni Malinen
2015-05-22 7:32 ` Johannes Berg
2015-05-22 7:41 ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-22 7:43 ` Johannes Berg
2015-05-22 8:05 ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-22 8:18 ` Johannes Berg
2015-05-22 8:19 ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-21 12:29 ` [PATCH 0/7] crypto: Convert all AEAD users to new interface Stephan Mueller
2015-05-22 0:18 ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-21 16:03 ` David Miller
2015-05-22 0:21 ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-22 8:27 ` [v2 PATCH 0/13] " Herbert Xu
2015-05-22 8:30 ` [v2 PATCH 1/13] crypto: aead - Add crypto_aead_alg_ivsize/maxauthsize Herbert Xu
2015-05-22 8:30 ` [v2 PATCH 2/13] crypto: seqiv - Use aead_register_instance Herbert Xu
2015-05-22 8:30 ` [v2 PATCH 3/13] crypto: echainiv " Herbert Xu
2015-05-22 8:30 ` [v2 PATCH 4/13] crypto: aead - Do not set cra_type for new style instances Herbert Xu
2015-05-22 8:30 ` [v2 PATCH 5/13] crypto: testmgr - Switch to new AEAD interface Herbert Xu
2015-06-04 22:15 ` Tadeusz Struk
2015-06-05 3:57 ` Herbert Xu
2015-06-05 22:10 ` Tadeusz Struk
2015-06-07 7:06 ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-22 8:30 ` [v2 PATCH 6/13] xfrm: Add IV generator information to xfrm_algo_desc Herbert Xu
2015-05-22 8:30 ` [v2 PATCH 7/13] ipsec: Add IV generator information to xfrm_state Herbert Xu
2015-05-22 8:30 ` [v2 PATCH 8/13] esp4: Switch to new AEAD interface Herbert Xu
2015-05-22 8:30 ` [v2 PATCH 9/13] esp6: " Herbert Xu
2015-05-22 8:30 ` [v2 PATCH 10/13] mac802154: " Herbert Xu
2015-05-22 8:31 ` [v2 PATCH 11/13] mac80211: " Herbert Xu
2015-05-22 8:31 ` [v2 PATCH 12/13] crypto: tcrypt - " Herbert Xu
2015-05-22 8:31 ` [v2 PATCH 13/13] crypto: algif_aead " Herbert Xu
2015-05-22 20:59 ` Stephan Mueller
2015-05-22 21:04 ` Stephan Mueller
2015-05-22 21:54 ` [PATCH 0/2] crypto: Use tmpl->create when registering geniv Herbert Xu
2015-05-22 21:58 ` [v2 PATCH 13/13] crypto: algif_aead - Switch to new AEAD interface Herbert Xu
2015-05-23 18:04 ` Stephan Mueller
2015-05-23 18:04 ` Stephan Mueller
2015-05-24 3:34 ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-24 10:52 ` Stephan Mueller
2015-05-25 10:20 ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-25 11:50 ` Stephan Mueller
2015-05-25 11:53 ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-26 6:24 ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-26 6:44 ` Stephan Mueller
2015-05-26 7:36 ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-26 7:57 ` Stephan Mueller
2015-05-26 7:58 ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-27 8:01 ` [v3 PATCH 0/8] crypto: Convert all AEAD users to new interface Herbert Xu
2015-05-27 8:03 ` [v3 PATCH 1/8] crypto: testmgr - Switch to new AEAD interface Herbert Xu
2015-05-27 8:03 ` [v3 PATCH 2/8] xfrm: Add IV generator information to xfrm_algo_desc Herbert Xu
2015-05-27 8:03 ` [v3 PATCH 3/8] ipsec: Add IV generator information to xfrm_state Herbert Xu
2015-05-27 8:03 ` [v3 PATCH 4/8] esp4: Switch to new AEAD interface Herbert Xu
2015-05-27 8:03 ` [v3 PATCH 5/8] esp6: " Herbert Xu
2015-05-27 8:03 ` [v3 PATCH 6/8] mac802154: " Herbert Xu
2015-05-27 8:03 ` [v3 PATCH 7/8] mac80211: " Herbert Xu
2015-05-27 8:03 ` [v3 PATCH 8/8] crypto: tcrypt - " Herbert Xu
2015-05-27 8:15 ` [v3 PATCH 0/8] crypto: Convert all AEAD users to new interface Johannes Berg
2015-05-27 8:39 ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-27 9:00 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2015-05-27 9:07 ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-27 9:18 ` Johannes Berg
2015-05-27 9:25 ` Steffen Klassert
2015-05-27 9:29 ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-27 9:32 ` Steffen Klassert
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