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Date:   Mon, 19 Mar 2018 17:24:58 +0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: doc - clarify hash callbacks state machine
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On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 06:39:50AM +0000, Horia Geantă wrote:
>
> The fact that there can be multiple requests in parallel (for a given tfm) is a
> different topic.
> Each request object has its state in its own state machine, independent from the
> other request objects.
> I assume this is clear enough.

My point is that all of the state associated with a request needs
to be stored in the request object.  If you're start storing things
in the driver/hardware, then things will get ugly one way or another.

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