Re: generic ahash question

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On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 02:41:03PM +0000, Pascal Van Leeuwen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recall reading somewhere in the Linux Crypto documentation that support for finup() and digest()
> calls were explicitly added to support hardware that couldn't handle seperate init/update/final
> calls so they could at least be used with e.g. the IPsec stack.  I also noticed that testmgr *does*
>  attempt to verify these seperate calls ...
> 
> So I'm guessing there must be some flags that I can set to indicate I'm not supporting seperate
> init/update/final calls so that testmgr skips those specific tests? Which flag(s) do I need to set?
> 

Where does the documentation say that?

AFAICS, init/update/final have been mandatory for at least 9 years, as that's
when testmgr started testing it.  See:

	commit a8f1a05292db8b410be47fa905669672011f0343
	Author: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
	Date:   Wed May 19 14:12:03 2010 +1000

	    crypto: testmgr - Add testing for async hashing and update/final

- Eric



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