Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] Introduce akcipher service for virtio-crypto

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Wed Apr 06 2022 - 08:05:11 EST


On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 10:33:42AM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05 2022, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 05:39:24PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> >> On Mon, Mar 07 2022, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 10:42:30AM +0800, zhenwei pi wrote:
> >> >> Hi, Michael & Lei
> >> >>
> >> >> The full patchset has been reviewed by Gonglei, thanks to Gonglei.
> >> >> Should I modify the virtio crypto specification(use "__le32 akcipher_algo;"
> >> >> instead of "__le32 reserve;" only, see v1->v2 change), and start a new issue
> >> >> for a revoting procedure?
> >> >
> >> > You can but not it probably will be deferred to 1.3. OK with you?
> >> >
> >> >> Also cc Cornelia Huck.
> >>
> >> [Apologies, I'm horribly behind on my email backlog, and on virtio
> >> things in general :(]
> >>
> >> The akcipher update had been deferred for 1.2, so I think it will be 1.3
> >> material. However, I just noticed while browsing the fine lwn.net merge
> >> window summary that this seems to have been merged already. That
> >> situation is less than ideal, although I don't expect any really bad
> >> problems, given that there had not been any negative feedback for the
> >> spec proposal that I remember.
> >
> > Let's open a 1.3 branch? What do you think?
>
> Yes, that's probably best, before things start piling up.

OK, want to do it? And we can then start voting on 1.3 things
straight away.

--
MST