Re: [PATCH net-next v3 02/17] zinc: introduce minimal cryptography library

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Tue Sep 11 2018 - 19:30:27 EST


On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 04:02:52PM -0600, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 3:47 PM Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Of course, the real problem is that even after multiple revisions of this
> > patchset, there's still no actual conversions of the existing crypto API
> > algorithms over to use the new implementations. "Zinc" is still completely
> > separate from the existing crypto API.
>
> No this is not, "the real problem [...] after multiple revisions"
> because I've offered to do this and stated pretty clearly my intent to
> do so. But, as I've mentioned before, I'd really prefer to land this
> series through net-next

Hi Jason

Just as an FYI:

1) I don't think anybody in netdev has taken a serious look at the
network code yet. There is little point until the controversial part
of the code, Zinc, has been sorted out.

2) I personally would be surprised if DaveM took this code without
having an Acked-by from the crypto subsystem people. In the same way,
i doubt the crypto people would take an Ethernet driver without having
DaveM's Acked-by.

Andrew