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Re: [PATCH v2] ext4: move halfmd4 into hash.c directly

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On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 01:07:01AM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> The "half md4" transform should not be used by any new code. And
> fortunately, it's only used now by ext4. Since ext4 supports several
> hashing methods, at some point it might be desirable to move to
> something like SipHash. As an intermediate step, remove half md4 from
> cryptohash.h and lib, and make it just a local function in ext4's
> hash.c. There's precedent for doing this; the other function ext can use
> for its hashes -- TEA -- is also implemented in the same place. Also, by
> being a local function, this might allow gcc to perform some additional
> optimizations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted

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Re: [PATCH v2] ext4: move halfmd4 into hash.c directly Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2017-02-02 18:00 +0100

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