Re: [CRYPTO] add alg. type to /proc/crypto output

[James Morris]

On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Erlend Aasland wrote:

> On 09/05/03 07:34, David S. Miller wrote:
> > Is it even useful?
> Check http://samba.org/~jamesm/crypto/TODO
> It's listed under medium priority, so I thought I was doing a good
> thing implementing it.

I think someone asked for it once, not sure exactly why, but I guess it
makes parsing simpler and theoretically less likely to break if e.g. a
field is added or removed for an algorithm type.


- James
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