On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 03:45:26PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 08:11:42AM +0100, Steffen Klassert wrote: > > > > I think this is not sufficient, crypto_alg_match() will now return the first > > algorithm in crypto_alg_list that matches cra_name. We would need to extend > > crypto_alg_match() to return the algorithm with the highest priority in that > > case. > > It doesn't really matter because all implementations must provide > exactly the same set of parameters for a given algorithm so it's > good enough for what Stephan wants to do. Ok, I see. > But yes an interface to grab the highest priority algorithm would > be useful too so patches are welcome :) Should be not too hard to return the highest priority algorithm instead of the first match with the existing interface, I'll see what I can do. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
