Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262884AbTIFQod (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Sep 2003 12:44:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262903AbTIFQod (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Sep 2003 12:44:33 -0400 Received: from [144.139.59.128] ([144.139.59.128]:33152 "EHLO excalibur.intercode.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262884AbTIFQoc (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Sep 2003 12:44:32 -0400 Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 02:43:31 +1000 (EST) From: James Morris To: Erlend Aasland cc: "David S. Miller" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [CRYPTO] add alg. type to /proc/crypto output In-Reply-To: <20030906100818.GA24931@johanna5.ux.his.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 741 Lines: 23 On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Erlend Aasland wrote: > On 09/05/03 07:34, David S. Miller wrote: > > Is it even useful? > Check http://samba.org/~jamesm/crypto/TODO > It's listed under medium priority, so I thought I was doing a good > thing implementing it. I think someone asked for it once, not sure exactly why, but I guess it makes parsing simpler and theoretically less likely to break if e.g. a field is added or removed for an algorithm type. - James -- James Morris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/