Re: [PATCH 01/12] crypto: add helper function for akcipher_request

[Herbert Xu]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 10:29:01AM +0000, Iuliana Prodan wrote:
>
> Why can't we use this? There are similar functions for 
> skcipher/aead/ahash and they are all in include/crypto.

Because we don't want drivers to use the underlying crypto_request
at all.  All drivers should be using the aead_request and others.

Only infrastructure code such as crypto_engine may use the base
type internally.

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