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From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] crypto: Add IV generation templates
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On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:50:12AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> There seems to be some support for at least essiv(aes) in
> drivers/crypto/ccree/cc_cipher.c, is that compatible with your essiv(*)
> template, or is that something else?

Whatever it is it should be removed.  We should not be adding
hardware algorithms for which there is no software equivalent.

Thanks,
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