Re: Deprecating the crypto/af_alg module?

Bruno Haible via Gnulib discussion list <[email protected]>
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Collin Funk wrote:
> 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?

No objection. My main trouble with AF_ALG was that it was not consistently
faster than user-space code: it was faster in some cases and slower in some
other cases [1].

Bruno

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2018-05/msg00048.html
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