From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2C0DA0547; Wed, 8 Sep 2021 14:37:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 599C241140; Wed, 8 Sep 2021 14:37:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-108-mta192.mxroute.com (mail-108-mta192.mxroute.com [136.175.108.192]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18A0340E25 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2021 14:37:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from filter004.mxroute.com ([149.28.56.236] filter004.mxroute.com) (Authenticated sender: mN4UYu2MZsgR) by mail-108-mta192.mxroute.com (ZoneMTA) with ESMTPSA id 17bc5698ebd00074ba.003 for (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256); Wed, 08 Sep 2021 12:37:14 +0000 X-Zone-Loop: ab761f84b9ae7b07a875aa66aff4e58a8fb833f46f8c X-Originating-IP: [149.28.56.236] DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ashroe.eu; s=x; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date: Message-ID:From:References:Cc:To:Subject:Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe: List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=xBcPTB34EE33cLJQCrFASEOCeCDAQlUSvRN/NlffhNE=; b=eG0N7afG9C5qYdEiURU0ZYBTtM p1+CQLhv774nV6Uo7XlGEcxVKoUEyis8HyEzrwtVxZQqAY8w2XRMq682IhpE0HAwU9mm16dqNNCcc xvgOROKXW7Qug9JUmW4HfykF1gUfrIE8lcIGLTUDlR7ym+B1qcNTkWcJ3gv5yxo/uFP6gfZREd4Zf KC0B7yRmZlZ7RdrAvBp71X9DsfMVdYBBn3qU85UIAZVFDraZ8E5wBULMjRToFrWd0/k/BS0QO29GU 1mFAtEYPpJdzVufwPvEB+oQ2bCoCiah+ME5ywXjNAZYpzBwd/rq967zia5+/8eXx5EzHytCzGckbr 7CfLQCsA==; To: Akhil Goyal , "Kusztal, ArkadiuszX" , "dev@dpdk.org" Cc: "thomas@monjalon.net" , "david.marchand@redhat.com" , "hemant.agrawal@nxp.com" , Anoob Joseph , "De Lara Guarch, Pablo" , "Trahe, Fiona" , "Doherty, Declan" , "matan@nvidia.com" , "g.singh@nxp.com" , "Zhang, Roy Fan" , "jianjay.zhou@huawei.com" , "asomalap@amd.com" , "ruifeng.wang@arm.com" References: <20210731181327.660296-1-gakhil@marvell.com> <20210731181327.660296-3-gakhil@marvell.com> From: "Kinsella, Ray" Message-ID: <0765ebaa-bb3b-4664-f8f5-01de3d5d5d07@ashroe.eu> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 13:37:09 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AuthUser: mdr@ashroe.eu Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] cryptodev: promote asym APIs to stable X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Folks, On 07/09/2021 12:45, Akhil Goyal wrote: >>> Do you think all the asym APIs are not eligible for promoting it to stable >> APIs? >>> I haven't seen any changes for quite some time and we cannot have it >>> experimental Forever. >>> The APIs which you think are expected to change, we can leave them as >>> experimental And mark the others as stable. >> We could potentially make capability related functions stable but for others >> there are still some many uncertainties, another example: >> Ecdsa op expects 'k' in "in the interval (1, n-1)", openssl pmd will not even >> have function that accepts 'k' (although optionally inverse of k yes), what >> should user put then here? >> >> This API needs more attention I believe, I can send patches for it after 21.11 >> release. >> My opinion is that we should push all this by another year. >> > Ok will drop this patch for now. > Look since everyone is in alignment here, I am going to ask the symbol bot to ignore the asym crypto APIs for the next year. Thanks for the diligence on this, and thanks to Fan for sending me an FYI. Ray K