Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 16:43:24 +0900
From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] crypto: export crypto_alg_list and rwsem
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On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 03:29:18PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 04:30:31PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> >
> > How about introducing new functions to search supported algorithm in
> > kernel-side? As crypto API is used in more places, this interface
> > would be requested more. Defined list weaken the advantage of strong
> > point of generic crypto API.
> 
> You're only getting the list so you can immediately reexport
> it to user-space, with no added value whatsoever.  As I said
> we already have an interface for that so you should use it.
> 
> If more genuine uses come up then I will reconsider.

Okay. I will think this issue more and come back with better
solution.

Thanks.
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