From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tadeusz Struk Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v5 2/4] crypto: add PKE API Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 19:55:49 -0700 Message-ID: <557F9035.80500@intel.com> References: <20150615201831.15697.57738.stgit@tstruk-mobl1> <20150615201842.15697.59701.stgit@tstruk-mobl1> <20150615235954.GC16562@gondor.apana.org.au> <557F883C.5040207@intel.com> <20150616022947.GB19040@gondor.apana.org.au> <557F8E04.7000209@intel.com> <20150616025028.GA19474@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, keescook@chromium.org, jwboyer@redhat.com, smueller@chronox.de, richard@nod.at, steved@redhat.com, qat-linux@intel.com, dhowells@redhat.com, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, james.l.morris@oracle.com, jkosina@suse.cz, zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, davem@davemloft.net, vgoyal@redhat.com To: Herbert Xu Return-path: Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:8573 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751789AbbFPCzx (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jun 2015 22:55:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20150616025028.GA19474@gondor.apana.org.au> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06/15/2015 07:50 PM, Herbert Xu wrote: > If you want to keep the helper generic what you can do is have > it take struct rsa_key instead of struct crypto_ablkcipher. Ok I'll do it that way. > > It definitely should just be an optional helper as opposed to > a required part of crypto_akcipher since you could have a piece > of hardware that takes the encoded key directly in which case > you wouldn't need the helper at all. Oh yes, it is definitely optional. Thanks