Re: [RFC PATCH] zinc chacha20 generic implementation using crypto API code

[Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 02:54:15PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
>
> > I think the remaining issue right now is how to order my series and
> > Eric's series. If Eric's goes in first, it means that I can either a)
> > spend some time developing Zinc further _now_ to support chacha12 and
> > keep the top two conversion patches, or b) just drop the top two
> > conversion patches and work that out carefully with Eric after. I
> > think (b) would be better, but I'm happy to do (a) if you disagree.
> > And as I mentioned in the last email, I'd prefer Eric's work to go in
> > after Zinc, but I don't think the reasoning for that is particularly
> > strong, so it seems fine to merge Eric's work first.
> > 
> > I'll post v9 pretty soon and you can see how things are shaping up.
> > Hopefully before then Eric/Ard/you can provide some feedback on
> > whether you'd prefer (a) or (b) above.
> > 
> 
> I'd still prefer to see the conversion patches included.  Skipping them would be
> kicking the can down the road and avoiding issues that will need to be addressed
> anyway.  Like you, I don't want a "half-baked concoction that will be maybe
> possibly be replaced 'later'" :-)

Are you guys talking about the conversion patches to eliminate the
two copies of chacha code that would otherwise exist in crypto as
well as in zinc?

If so I think that's not negotiable.  Having two copies of the same
code is just not acceptable.

Cheers,
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