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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>, Kausty <kkumbhalkar@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] crypto/api.c: remove the second argument of crypto_alg_available()
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:58:37 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051031115837.GA352@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051031054642.GD8009@stusta.de>

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 06:46:42AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> > IIRC, this was to allow future code to specify preferences for the type of
> > algorithm driver (e.g. hardware), but has not been used.  This is an
> > example of why it's a bad idea to add infrastructure which isn't being
> > used at the time.
> 
> Since it's still unused, a patch to remove this second argument is 
> below.

I'll be using this field very soon to indicate that the caller intends
to find synchronous algorithms only as opposed to either synchronous or
asynchronous.  So I'd like to keep it for now.

Thanks,
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      reply	other threads:[~2005-10-31 12:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-20 12:48 crypto/api.c: crypto_alg_available(): flags param not used Kausty
2005-01-20 14:54 ` James Morris
2005-10-31  5:46   ` [2.6 patch] crypto/api.c: remove the second argument of crypto_alg_available() Adrian Bunk
2005-10-31 11:58     ` Herbert Xu [this message]

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