12/01/2023 14:22, De Lara Guarch, Pablo:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> From: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>
> > 12/01/2023 11:32, Ji, Kai:
> > > Ok, a long story short, this issue should only occurred when
> > RTE_QAT_LIBIPSECMB is enabled.
> > > It was intend to remove Openssl lib dependency in QAT replaced with
> > > ipsec_mb lib, but the work was partially done due to limitation of
> > > ipsec_mb by the time (FIPS certification)
> > >
> > > I'm happy with current fix and please cc: sta...@dpdk.org
> > 
> > I'm not happy with this fix. It is a dirty workaround.
> > It would be better to have an #ifdef in ipsec_mb.
> > 
> > Also I would like an answer to the question below. What triggered this 
> > error?
> > Is it a new thing in the lib ipsec_mb?
> > Why defining AES_BLOCK_SIZE while IMB_AES_BLOCK_SIZE can be used and
> > have a proper prefix?
> 
> Apologies for the late response.
> 
> This macro was renamed to IMB_AES_BLOCK_SIZE, as you already know.
> The problem is that, for compatibility reasons, we had to keep the old macro 
> as well.
> However, we added a compile time flag to remove these legacy macros, for 
> exactly this reason
> (NO_COMPAT_IMB_API_053).
> 
> I think a solution could be to use this flag in QAT, so the legacy macros are 
> not defined.
> 
> I will send a patch to fix this.

OK good, so we can reject this patch?


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