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Re: [PATCH] Removing CTR mode from NX driver

From Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] Removing CTR mode from NX driver
Date 2015-08-10 17:50 +0200
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On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 06:31:01PM -0300, Leonidas S. Barbosa wrote:
> CTR hardware implementation does not match with kernel spec causing a counter bug
> where just low 8 bytes are used for counter, when should be all 16bytes.
> 
> Since we already have other counter modes working according with specs
> not worth to keep CTR itself on NX.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Leonidas S. Barbosa <leosilva@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied.
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[PATCH] Removing CTR mode from NX driver "Leonidas S. Barbosa" <leosilva@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-08-08 23:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] Removing CTR mode from NX driver Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-08-10 17:50 +0200

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