From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 07/23] zinc: ChaCha20 ARM and ARM64 implementations Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 17:41:12 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20180925145622.29959-1-Jason@zx2c4.com> <20180925145622.29959-8-Jason@zx2c4.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Cc: Herbert Xu , Thomas Gleixner , LKML , Netdev , Linux Crypto Mailing List , David Miller , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Samuel Neves , Andrew Lutomirski , Jean-Philippe Aumasson , Russell King - ARM Linux , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org To: Ard Biesheuvel Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-crypto.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 4:02 PM Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > I don't think it makes sense to keep > it simple now and add the complexity later (and the same concern > applies to async support btw). Ugh, no. I don't want to add needless complexity, period. Zinc is synchronous, not asynchronous. It provides software implementations. That's what it does. While many of your reviews have been useful, many of your comments indicate some desire to change and mold the purpose and focus of Zinc away from Zinc's intents. Stop that. It's not going to become a bloated mess of "things Ard wanted and quipped about on LKML." Things like these only serve to filibuster the patchset indefinitely. But maybe that's what you'd like all along? Hard to tell, honestly. So, no, sorry, Zinc isn't gaining an async interface right now.