From: Stephan Mueller Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] crypto: add algif_akcipher user space API Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 09:14:09 +0200 Message-ID: <1665497.lHEipZEYQl@myon.chronox.de> References: <1831785.BBs8Hj3CxY@myon.chronox.de> <20151019013230.GA3156@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org To: Herbert Xu Return-path: Received: from mail.eperm.de ([89.247.134.16]:34371 "EHLO mail.eperm.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750799AbbJSHOP (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Oct 2015 03:14:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20151019013230.GA3156@gondor.apana.org.au> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Am Montag, 19. Oktober 2015, 09:32:30 schrieb Herbert Xu: Hi Herbert, > On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 12:44:00PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This patch set adds the AF_ALG user space API to externalize the > > asymmetric cipher API recently added to the kernel crypto API. > > > > The patch set is tested with the user space library of libkcapi [1]. > > Use [1] test/test.sh for a full test run. The test covers the > > > following scenarios: > Thanks Stephan. But I would prefer to defer this til after we have > completed the conversion of current in-kernel users. This is because > changing the kernel interface is easy while changing the user-space > interface is not. Sure, let us wait. However, I would suggest that you pull patch 1/5 as this is a bug fix that may affect even other users. -- Ciao Stephan