RE: [EXT] Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] cryptodev: promote asym APIs to stable

["Kusztal, ArkadiuszX" <arkadiuszx.kusztal@intel.com>]

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> From: Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>
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> Subject: RE: [EXT] Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] cryptodev: promote asym APIs to
> stable
> 
>  Folks,
> 
> Can we promote the Asym APIs to stable now?

Yes, I think we cannot keep it as experimental forever. Although there is still much work to be done starting with capabilities and tests, I will describe it in separate threads.

> 
> Regards,
> Akhil
> 
> >
> > 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