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Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests/sgx: Ignore OpenSSL 3.0 deprecated functions
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To:     Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@linux.intel.com>,
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        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
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On 7/21/22 13:08, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-07-21 at 13:02 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> On 7/21/22 12:40, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
>>> OpenSSL 3.0 deprecates some of the functions used in the SGX
>>> selftests, causing build errors on new distros. For now ignore
>>> the warnings until support for the functions is no longer
>>> available.
>> Are there some better functions we should be moving to?
> I looked into this actually as my first choice, but the problem I had
> was that the recommended new functions weren't available on other
> OpenSSL libraries, and we'd have to add compatibility macros and stuff,
> so it seemed to me that the less complicated thing to do was wait till
> OpenSSL 1 was just not widely deployed anymore. This strategy is also
> being used in other scripts in the kernel.

Sounds sane to me.  Thanks for the explanation.