[EXT] Re: [PATCH v0 3/8] crypto: hbk flags & info added to the tfm

[Herbert Xu]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 09:15:48AM -0600, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
>
> Do you mean to say that other drivers that use hardware-backed keys do
> so by setting "cra_name" to something particular? Like instead of "aes"
> it'd be "aes-but-special-for-this-driver"? If so, that would seem to
> break the design of the crypto API. Which driver did you see that does
> this? Or perhaps, more generally, what are the drivers that Herbert is
> talking about when he mentions the "plenty of existing drivers" that
> already do this?

Grep for paes for the existing drivers that support this.  I don't
have anything against this feature per se, but the last thing we
want is a proliferation of different ways of doing the same thing.

Cheers,
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