Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] crypto: qat - Add support for RSA algorithm

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On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 08:14:51AM -0700, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
> On 07/15/2015 08:09 AM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> >> This is even more complicated because the user can first allocate request
> >> > and then call setkey causing fallback. I'm now thinking about adding the
> >> > limitation to rsa generic or I can still use rsa-generic which I know that
> >> > its ctx is smaller than mine. What do you think?
> > This would preclude any future assembly implementations from being
> > used.  Besides this is how we implement fallbacks everywhere else
> > in the crypto API so I don't see why this one should be different.
> 
> Are you ok if I just add the same constrains to rsa-generic?

Yes that would work.  Of course if any future hardware implementation
wanted to support other key sizes we'd have to add a fallback to qat.

Cheers,
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