On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 16:39 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:15:50AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > > Do you think it'd be feasible at all to somehow override the > > aead_request_set_crypt() and aead_request_set_ad() functions or so to do > > something that works on older kernels (and thus older crypto subsystems) > > or do you think I just shouldn't bother looking at that and just add > > ifdefs to "undo" your changes in this series on older kernels? > > Another option is to backport the new interface to the older kernel. > > You only need something like > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/6452601/ > > for the older kernel to support the new interface along with the > old interface.
Right. Unfortunately, I can't typically rely on being able to make changes to the kernel our driver is built against, and I don't think we could do these changes otherwise. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
