Re: Deprecating the crypto/af_alg module?
Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list <[email protected]>
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Collin Funk <[email protected]> writes: > A month ago the linux crypto API maintainer pushed a commit deprecating > af_alg [1]. Any objections to marking the Gnulib module deprecated once > it gets merged into the main tree? +1 I never understood the push for af_alg, it seems really poor use of kernel time, and lots of unnecessary complexity in user-space, and I would be happy to see this removed or deprecated from gnulib. /Simon > I am guessing it will be uncontroversial since the OpenSSL versions of > the functions Gnulib uses are faster anyways. > > Collin > > [1] > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/cryptodev-2.6.git/commit/?id=a67afb1884ba815079bd43d5c998e155e03b08b6 > >
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