Re: Hardware Crypto Driver

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On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 09:54:37AM -0500, Orlando wrote:
> I think the main problem might be my lack of understanding how IVs are
> handled by the kernel crypto framework. It seems the omap-aes.c driver
> is indicating to the crypto framework that it wants IV generation to
> be handled automatically by the crypto framework by filling this field
> .geniv = "eseqiv". Is there a way I can tell the kernel crypto
> framework to stop handling IV generation? Even if I remove the .geniv
> field it gets set with a default value by the crypto framework. I have
> tried .geniv = "<built-in>" but then when I make a crypto call it does
> not use the driver anymore. What are the required things I must do if
> I set .geniv = "<built-in>" ?

geniv is completely unrelated to this.  In fact, in the current
kernel geniv is no longer used and I will remove it once the skcipher
conversion is done.

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