Re: [PATCH]

[Jean-Luc Cooke]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 09:58:58PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So I'd strongly suggest against doing any "raw crypto access". Zero-copy
> is often just a complicated way of doing things slowly, all in the name of
> some benchmark performance.

I hear you, these are all desirable things and I hate trying to be the black
sheep - but would random.c make sense in being the exception since the
outward looking interfaces (random_write for example) all use const char*
type as arguments?

Keeping the existing random.c interface and using crypto-api's scatter-gather
interface are kind of contradictory ... or and I really missing something
important (likely)?

JLC
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