On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:10:17AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > > I don't see why you couldn't do that for the crypto API too > if you wanted to. That way it would benefit all crypto users > rather than just the crc32c (note the extra c) users. Anyway, the point here is the crc32c is nothing special. It's just one out of many algorithms that has/will have hardware acceleration support. Rather than doing ad-hoc implementations and optimising that whenever such a thing pops up, let's spend our effort in creating a common platform that can be reused. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
