From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hash import/export
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:44:49 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151012014449.GA22774@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151011193427.GI32532@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 08:34:27PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>
> Is there any reason a driver can't define its own structure to be
> exported here which can be shared between each of the different methods
> it supports?
For algorithms in general you can use any format you like and there
is no restriction. However, for specific algorithms such as crc32c
and family there is a requirement to use a fixed format.
Cheers,
--
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-11 19:34 hash import/export Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-10-11 19:38 ` Boris Brezillon
2015-10-11 22:10 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-10-12 1:44 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
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