Re: [PATCH v7] lib/crypto: blake2s: include as built-in

[Herbert Xu]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 06:02:52PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>
> The only downside here is that the ARM/x86 accelerated shashes and the
> generic shash now use the same core transform, right? Given that the
> generic blake2s shash is never used for anything in the kernel, the
> only reason for its existence was to be able to use the randomized
> crypto testing infrastructure to test the arch code.
> 
> Ergo, there is no point in retaining the blake2s shashes and we can
> simply remove all of them. (Note that blake2b is used as an shash via
> the crypto API by btrfs, but blake2s is only used via the library API)

I have no objections to removing blake2s.

Thanks,
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