Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 15:45:26 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Cc: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>,
        Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>, quentin.gouchet@gmail.com,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
        ABI/API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: crypto: user - Allow get request with empty driver name
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On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 08:11:42AM +0100, Steffen Klassert wrote:
>
> I think this is not sufficient, crypto_alg_match() will now return the first
> algorithm in crypto_alg_list that matches cra_name. We would need to extend
> crypto_alg_match() to return the algorithm with the highest priority in that
> case.

It doesn't really matter because all implementations must provide
exactly the same set of parameters for a given algorithm so it's
good enough for what Stephan wants to do.

But yes an interface to grab the highest priority algorithm would
be useful too so patches are welcome :)

Cheers,
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