Hi: Dave, these patches are for cryptodev-2.6.
This series of patches adds the new hash crypto type. It completely replaces the existing digest type from the user's side. For now the digest algorithm interface will remain and coexist with the new hash algorithm interface. The main reasons for the new type are: 1) Be able to return errors from init/update/final/digest. 2) Take a descriptor argument in init/update/final/digest. 3) Use SG on algorithm side for update/digest. 4) Compatibility on the algorithm side. The first three are needed for async crypto. For now only the HMAC users have been converted over to the new hash interface. The rest will follow next. I do not currently plan to convert the algorithms to the new interface because there is little benefit. In fact one of the main advantages of the crypto_type setup is the ability to have multiple algorithm types supported by the same user interface. Apart from that this series is a respin of the HMAC patches which I've posted before. The only difference is that HMAC is now a hash algorithm rather than digest. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
