On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 09:30:20PM +0000, Pascal Van Leeuwen wrote: > > Still, it seems rather odd to on the one hand acknowledge the fact that there is > hardware out there with these limitations, and add specific support for that, and > on the other hand burden their drivers with implementing all these fallbacks. > That's why I assumed there must be some flags somehere to indicate to the API > that it should not bother my driver with requests requiring init/update/final. > Which I now know is not the case, so fine, I either implement the fallbacks or I > just don't bother supporting the algorithm. If we could abstract out the fallback stuff so that it could be reused in multiple drivers then we should do that. It's just that there hasn't been enough of a need to do this up until now. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
