Re: [PATCH RFC v5 2/4] crypto: add PKE API

[Tadeusz Struk]

On 06/15/2015 05:05 PM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Hmm, we could actually get rid of maxsize by just having each
> function check the dst_len and if it is insufficient write the
> required length in it and then return an error.

Actually I think it is useful. Without it the user will need to allocate
a buffer, and invoke an operation only to find out that the buffer need to be
bigger.
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