> -----Original Message----- > From: Akhil Goyal <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2023 11:49 AM > To: Kinsella, Ray <[email protected]>; Kusztal, ArkadiuszX > <[email protected]>; [email protected] > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; Anoob Joseph <[email protected]>; De Lara > Guarch, Pablo <[email protected]>; Trahe, Fiona > <[email protected]>; Doherty, Declan <[email protected]>; > [email protected]; [email protected]; Zhang, Roy Fan > <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; David Marchand <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: [EXT] Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] cryptodev: promote asym APIs to > stable > > Folks, > > Can we promote the Asym APIs to stable now?
Yes, I think we cannot keep it as experimental forever. Although there is still much work to be done starting with capabilities and tests, I will describe it in separate threads. > > Regards, > Akhil > > > > > On 07/09/2021 12:45, Akhil Goyal wrote: > > >>> Do you think all the asym APIs are not eligible for promoting it > > >>> to stable > > >> APIs? > > >>> I haven't seen any changes for quite some time and we cannot have > > >>> it experimental Forever. > > >>> The APIs which you think are expected to change, we can leave them > > >>> as experimental And mark the others as stable. > > >> We could potentially make capability related functions stable but > > >> for others there are still some many uncertainties, another example: > > >> Ecdsa op expects 'k' in "in the interval (1, n-1)", openssl pmd > > >> will not even have function that accepts 'k' (although optionally > > >> inverse of k yes), what should user put then here? > > >> > > >> This API needs more attention I believe, I can send patches for it > > >> after 21.11 release. > > >> My opinion is that we should push all this by another year. > > >> > > > Ok will drop this patch for now. > > > > > > > Look since everyone is in alignment here, I am going to ask the symbol > > bot to ignore the asym crypto APIs for the next year. Thanks for the > > diligence on this, and thanks to Fan for sending me an FYI. > > > > Ray K
