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

[Sagi Grimberg]

>> So if we want to make progress on this we need the first 3 patches
>> rewviewed by the crypto maintainers.  In fact I'd prefer to get them
>> merged through the crypto tree as well, and would make sure we have
>> a branch that pulls them in for the nvme changes.  I'll try to find
>> some time to review the nvme bits as well.
>>
> That is _actually_ being addressed already.
> Nicolai Stange send a patchset for ephemeral keys, FFDHE support, and 
> FIPS-related thingies for the in-kernel DH crypto implementation 
> (https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/20211209090358.28231-1-nstange@suse.de/). 
> 
> This obsoletes my preliminary patches, and I have ported my patchset to 
> run on top of those.
> 
> 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?