On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 6:16 AM, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/27/2016 10:58 AM, Herbert Xu wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 10:08:48AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >>> >>> >>> According to Daniel, the networking folks want to let embedded systems >>> include BPF without requiring the crypto core. >> >> >> Last I checked the IPv4 stack depended on the crypto API so this >> sounds bogus. > > > I think there's a bit of a mixup here with what I said. To clarify, > requirement back then from tracing folks was that bpf engine and > therefore bpf syscall can be build w/o networking enabled for small > devices, so dependencies preferably need to be kept on a absolute > minimum, same counts for either making it suddenly a depend on > CRYPTO or a select CRYPTO for just those few lines that can be > pulled in from lib/ code instead. Somehow I had that in my head as "networking" not "tracing", probably because of the TCA stuff. Whoops. Anyway, I'm rewriting the crypto part of the patch completely based on Ard's feedback. -- 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
