Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 00/10] Crypto API and device framework

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>]

2015-11-25 13:25, Declan Doherty:
> This series of patches defines a set of application burst oriented APIs for
> asynchronous symmetric cryptographic functions within DPDK. It also contains a
> poll mode driver cryptographic device framework for the implementation of
> crypto devices within DPDK.
> 
> In the patch set we also have included 2 reference implementations of crypto
> PMDs. Currently both implementations support AES-CBC with
> HMAC_SHA1/SHA256/SHA512 authentication operations. The first device is a purely
> software PMD based on Intel's multi-buffer library, which utilises both
> AES-NI instructions and vector operations to accelerate crypto operations and
> the second PMD utilises Intel's Quick Assist Technology (on DH895xxC) to
> provide hardware accelerated crypto operations.

After rebase, small fixes in configs and MAINTAINERS,
Applied, thanks

It is marked as experimental in the documentation and configs.
The API needs to be more tested, discussed and documented.
So it is not stable and no deprecation process is needed to make some changes.