Re: [PATCH v12 06/10] crypto: Add supplementary info param to asymmetric key signature verification

[David Howells]

Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As I'm sure you're aware, C has native support for function parameters.

And we have a syscall interface to honour that takes a parameter string *for
this very purpose*.  It just wasn't threaded into the akcipher API.

> This is yet another example of a case where trying to fit different
> algorithms into a generic API doesn't work well.

Well enough.

> We should just have a library API for each signature algorithm, with
> each algorithm taking the parameters it needs.

No, we shouldn't.  We have a library that allows demand loadable modules.  We
should use that.

David