Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 2/7] crypto: authenc - convert to ahash

From: Steffen Klassert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:57:01 +0200

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 02:55:14PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
> For the case at hand, as we've agreed to only do the chaining
> if there is only a single entry in the list, we don't need this
> at all.  All you need to do is copy the page pointer, offset and
> length without copying the raw scatterlist entry.
> 

Agreed for this case. What about the existing code, should we create an
interface for it?