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Date:   Wed, 10 Jun 2020 22:11:07 +1000
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To:     Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: crypto API and GFP_ATOMIC
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On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 08:02:23AM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
>
> Yes, fixing the drivers would be the best - but you can hardly find any 
> person who has all the crypto hardware and who is willing to rewrite all 
> the drivers for it.

We don't have to rewrite them straight away.  We could mark the
known broken ones (or the known working ones) and then dm-crypt
can allocate only those using the types/mask to crypto_alloc.

Cheers,
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