Re: [PATCH 01/19] User-space API definition

2010-09-06 Thread Kyle Moffett
x27;s getting a bit late here, so I apologize if anything I've written above makes particularly little sense, but hopefully I've gotten the gist across. Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [PATCH 01/19] User-space API definition

2010-09-06 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 15:13, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: > On 09/06/2010 08:00 PM, Kyle Moffett wrote: >>> The kernel keyring service is basically a system-wide data storage >>> service.  /dev/crypto needs a quick way to refer to short-lived, >>> usually pr

Re: [PATCH 01/19] User-space API definition

2010-09-06 Thread Kyle Moffett
y on process exit. (2) Add cryptoapi hooks to automatically register keyring key types based on the loaded cryptoapi modules. (3) Add any necessary keyring operations for efficiently performing zero-copy cryptoapi calls using those key types. Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- To unsubscribe from this list: se

Re: [PATCH 01/19] User-space API definition

2010-08-21 Thread Kyle Moffett
see Documentation/keys.txt) that's being used for crypto keys for NFSv4, AFS, etc. Can't you just add a bunch of cryptoapi key types to that API instead? David Howells added to CC, since I believe he wrote most of that code initially. Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- To unsubscribe from this li

Re: Initcall ordering problem (TTY vs modprobe vs MD5) and cryptomgr problem

2010-08-05 Thread Kyle Moffett
g boot. To be honest, the test and integration engineer in me would like it if there were more intensive in-kernel POST tests that could be enabled by a kernel parameter or something for high-reliability embedded devices. Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &

Re: [PATCH] Export symbol ksize()

2009-02-13 Thread Kyle Moffett
ot;big win" for the rare case, then minor changes to the memory allocator could dramatically impact performance in a totally nondeterministic way. If the change isn't performance-significant in the grand scheme of things, then the use of ksize() would just be code obfuscation. On the othe