Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] crypto: remove unused digest-appended feature

["De Lara Guarch, Pablo" <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Griffin, John
> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 6:16 PM
> To: Trahe, Fiona; dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: De Lara Guarch, Pablo; Jastrzebski, MichalX K; Kusztal, ArkadiuszX
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: remove unused digest-appended feature
> 
> 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>

Applied to dpdk-next-crypto.
Thanks,

Pablo