[PATCHv8 00/12] nvme: In-band authentication support

[Sagi Grimberg]

>>>>>>> Question is how to continue from here; I can easily rebase my 
>>>>>>> patchset
>>>>>>> and send it relative to Nicolais patches. But then we'll be bound to
>>>>>>> the acceptance of those patches, so I'm not quite sure if that's the
>>>>>>> best way to proceed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Don't know if we have a choice here... What is the alternative you 
>>>>>> are
>>>>>> proposing?
>>>>>
>>>>> That's the thing, I don't really have a good alternative, either.
>>>>> It's just that I have so no idea about the crypto subsystem, and
>>>>> consequently wouldn't know how long we need to wait...
>>>>>
>>>>> But yeah, Nicolais patchset is far superior to my attempts, so I'd be
>>>>> happy to ditch my preliminary attempts there.
>>>>
>>>> Can we get a sense from the crypto folks to the state of Nicolais
>>>> patchset?
>>>
>>> According to Nicolai things look good, rules seem to be that it'll be
>>> accepted if it has positive reviews (which it has) and no-one objected
>>> (which no-one did).
>>> Other than that one would have to ask the maintainer.
>>> Herbert?
>>
>> Any updates on this?
> 
> Sigh.
> 
> Herbert suggested reworking the patch, and make ffdhe a separate 
> algorithm (instead of having enums to specify the values for the 
> existing DH algorithm).
> Discussion is ongoing :-(

Hannes and co,

Do you know what is the state of this dependency? Or when should
we expect to revisit this patch set?