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From: John Griffin <john.griffin@intel.com>
To: Fiona Trahe <fiona.trahe@intel.com>, dev@dpdk.org
Cc: pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com, michalx.k.jastrzebski@intel.com,
	arkadiuszx.kusztal@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] crypto: remove unused digest-appended feature
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 18:15:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <582F455F.3030505@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1479403997-15437-2-git-send-email-fiona.trahe@intel.com>

On 17/11/16 17:33, Fiona Trahe wrote:
> The cryptodev API had specified that if the digest address field was
> left empty on an authentication operation, then the PMD would assume
> the digest was appended to the source or destination data.
> This case was not handled at all by most PMDs and incorrectly handled
> by the QAT PMD.
> As no bugs were raised, it is assumed to be not needed, so this patch
> removes it, rather than add handling for the case on all PMDs.
> The digest can still be appended to the data, but its
> address must now be provided in the op.
>
> Signed-off-by: Fiona Trahe <fiona.trahe@intel.com>
> ---
>   drivers/crypto/qat/qat_adf/qat_algs_build_desc.c |  2 ++
>   drivers/crypto/qat/qat_crypto.c                  | 18 +-----------------
>   lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_crypto_sym.h            | 10 +---------
>   3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
>

Acked-by: John Griffin <john.griffin@intel.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-18 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-17 17:33 Fiona Trahe
2016-11-17 17:33 ` Fiona Trahe
2016-11-18 18:15   ` John Griffin [this message]
2016-11-30 15:16     ` De Lara Guarch, Pablo
2016-11-17 17:52 ` Trahe, Fiona

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