From c65058b7587fd3d001c57a50285477be521f5350 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 12:41:12 -0700
Subject: crypto: skcipher - remove the "blkcipher" algorithm type

Now that all "blkcipher" algorithms have been converted to "skcipher",
remove the blkcipher algorithm type.

The skcipher (symmetric key cipher) algorithm type was introduced a few
years ago to replace both blkcipher and ablkcipher (synchronous and
asynchronous block cipher).  The advantages of skcipher include:

  - A much less confusing name, since none of these algorithm types have
    ever actually been for raw block ciphers, but rather for all
    length-preserving encryption modes including block cipher modes of
    operation, stream ciphers, and other length-preserving modes.

  - It unified blkcipher and ablkcipher into a single algorithm type
    which supports both synchronous and asynchronous implementations.
    Note, blkcipher already operated only on scatterlists, so the fact
    that skcipher does too isn't a regression in functionality.

  - Better type safety by using struct skcipher_alg, struct
    crypto_skcipher, etc. instead of crypto_alg, crypto_tfm, etc.

  - It sometimes simplifies the implementations of algorithms.

Also, the blkcipher API was no longer being tested.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
---
 crypto/Makefile | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'crypto/Makefile')

diff --git a/crypto/Makefile b/crypto/Makefile
index 8de52cff3069..66b56ec37dd4 100644
--- a/crypto/Makefile
+++ b/crypto/Makefile
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_CRYPTO_ALGAPI2) += crypto_algapi.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_CRYPTO_AEAD2) += aead.o
 
 crypto_blkcipher-y := ablkcipher.o
-crypto_blkcipher-y += blkcipher.o
 crypto_blkcipher-y += skcipher.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_CRYPTO_BLKCIPHER2) += crypto_blkcipher.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_CRYPTO_SEQIV) += seqiv.o
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