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Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] crypto: engine - Permit to enqueue skcipher request

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On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 01:27:08PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 03:44:17PM +0200, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> > The crypto engine could actually only enqueue hash and ablkcipher request.
> > This patch permit it to enqueue skcipher requets by adding all necessary
> > functions.
> > The only problem is that ablkcipher and skcipher id are the same, so
> > only one cipher type is usable on the same crypto engine.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com>
> 
> I think this should be done as part of the skcipher conversion rather
> than as a standalone patch.
> 

Since there are two different user of "crypto engine + ablkcipher", it will be not easy to convert them in one serie. (I could do it, but I simply could not test it for OMAP (lack of hw))
And any new user which want to use crypto engine+skcipher (like me with the sun8i-ce driver) are simply stuck.

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Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] crypto: engine - Permit to enqueue skcipher  request Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2017-06-19 07:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] crypto: engine - Permit to enqueue skcipher  request Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> - 2017-06-19 10:00 +0200

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