[PATCHv4 3/7] crypto: sa2ul: add sha1/sha256/sha512 support

Tero Kristo t-kristo at ti.com
Tue Jun 30 03:58:28 EDT 2020


On 30/06/2020 10:54, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 10:52:57AM +0300, Tero Kristo wrote:
>>
>> How about making the buffer size configurable during probe time via module
>> param, and/or runtime via sysfs parameter? This would allow system designers
>> to tune it based on expected usecases.
> 
> Why do you even need to support this? What's the use-case?

Openssl uses init->update->final sequencing, and it would be nice to 
have this use crypto accelerator. Otherwise we basically support cipher 
acceleration from openssl, but not hashing.

> FWIW IPsec only uses digest.

IPSec only uses digest yes, this is not an issue.

-Tero
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