On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 20:41 -0500, Chris Frey wrote: > Hi Rick, > > Starting a new thread for commentary on the kernel, and various questions > and notes. > > In November 2006, the crypto_digest* family of functions was removed > from the kernel: > > commit cc44215eaaa5e4032946b962353526ae6c370c0e > Author: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed Nov 22 17:55:00 2006 +1100 > > [CRYPTO] api: Remove unused functions > > This patch removes the following no longer used functions: > - api.c: crypto_alg_available() > - digest.c: crypto_digest_init() > - digest.c: crypto_digest_update() > - digest.c: crypto_digest_final() > - digest.c: crypto_digest_digest() > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > It seems that the crypto algorithms are now split out into *_alg structs, > with function pointers as 'member functions' of the various sets of > crypto APIs.
That kinda sounds like the way it is ... > > This change makes it fail to compile on a recent kernel like 2.6.26.5. Guess I'm going to have to find a newer kernel. Most of the crypto stuff was done with 2.6.18. I only have access to Fedora Core [34] and CentOS 5.2 at the moment. > > The digest_alg API (not sure if that's the one you want to use) seems to > have stabilized at the 2.6.17 kernel release. I'm not positive it's the one I want either, but it gives me good hash (so to speak :). And I've been using 2.6.18 ... I'll have to have a look.... > > - Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Barry-devel mailing list Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel
