From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266427AbUHFDhf (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 23:37:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266334AbUHFDhe (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 23:37:34 -0400 Received: from [203.178.140.15] ([203.178.140.15]:11018 "EHLO yue.st-paulia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266256AbUHFDf4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 23:35:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 20:36:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20040805.203623.60258238.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> To: jmorris@redhat.com Cc: jlcooke@certainkey.com, mludvig@suse.cz, cryptoapi@lists.logix.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@redhat.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / =?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCNUhGIzFRTEAbKEI=?= In-Reply-To: References: <20040805194914.GC23994@certainkey.com> Organization: USAGI Project X-URL: http://www.yoshifuji.org/%7Ehideaki/ X-Fingerprint: 9022 65EB 1ECF 3AD1 0BDF 80D8 4807 F894 E062 0EEA X-PGP-Key-URL: http://www.yoshifuji.org/%7Ehideaki/hideaki@yoshifuji.org.asc X-Face: "5$Al-.M>NJ%a'@hhZdQm:."qn~PA^gq4o*>iCFToq*bAi#4FRtx}enhuQKz7fNqQz\BYU] $~O_5m-9'}MIs`XGwIEscw;e5b>n"B_?j/AkL~i/MEaZBLP X-Mailer: Mew version 2.2 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.1 (AOI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article (at Thu, 5 Aug 2004 22:47:12 -0400 (EDT)), James Morris says: > > Would you be against a patch to cryptoapi to have access to a > > non-scatter-list set of calls? : > level. Can you demonstrate a compelling need for raw access to the > algorithms via the API? I would use them for - Privacy Extensions (RFC3041) support - upcoming TCP MD5 signature (RFC2385) support since I don't see the advantage(s) of sg for allocated memories there. --yoshfuji