From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/crypto/nx: Add CRC and validation support for nx842 Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 17:54:01 +0800 Message-ID: <20150923095401.GA20580@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <1442707362.6178.11.camel@hbabu-laptop> <20150921142607.GA2405@gondor.apana.org.au> <20150922122117.GA11522@gondor.apana.org.au> <20150922144219.GA12943@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Haren Myneni , "David S. Miller" , Linux Crypto Mailing List , linux-kernel , Haren Myneni To: Dan Streetman Return-path: Received: from helcar.hengli.com.au ([209.40.204.226]:43976 "EHLO helcar.hengli.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752396AbbIWJyS (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Sep 2015 05:54:18 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 11:08:22AM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote: > > you think we should just strip out the 842-nx alignment/sizing code > and change it to fallback to the sw driver? Right, if the only intended user can provide aligned input then by all means make the unaligned case use the software fallback as there is no point in investing any effort in making it fast. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt