Re: [PATCH v7 4/7] crypto: add ecc curve and expose them

[Alessandrelli, Daniele]

On Tue, 2021-02-02 at 16:13 +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> The issue is that we always require a software implementation for
> any given hardware algorithm.  As otherwise kernel users cannot
> rely on the algorithm to work.

I understand. This sounds very reasonable to me.

> Of course we don't want to add every single algorithm out there
> to the kernel so that's why require there to be an actual in-kernel
> user before adding a given algorithm.

I see. Just to clarify: does the in-kernel user requirement also apply
to the case when the author of a device driver also provides the
software implementation for the new algorithms supported by device
driver / HW?