[PATCH 1/3] crypto: sm4 - create SM4 library based on sm4 generic code

Eric Biggers ebiggers at kernel.org
Wed Mar 2 14:23:23 PST 2022


On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 01:26:13AM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 1:24 AM Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 11:34:28AM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > > >  lib/crypto/Kconfig   |   3 +
> > > >  lib/crypto/Makefile  |   3 +
> > > >  lib/crypto/sm4.c     | 184 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >
> > > If this is only used by the crypto API, it does not belong in
> > > lib/crypto.
> >
> > Nope there is no such rule.  lib/crypto is fine if you're adding
> > code that is shared between crypto and arch/*/crypto.
> 
> The sprawling madness continues then... Noted.

I think it would make more sense for this code to be in crypto/, for the reason
that Jason gave.

- Eric



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