[EXT] Re: [PATCH] crypto/qat: fix build

[Akhil Goyal]

> 12/01/2023 17:16, De Lara Guarch, Pablo:
> > From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> > > 12/01/2023 14:22, De Lara Guarch, Pablo:
> > > > Hi Thomas,
> > > >
> > > > From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> > > > > 12/01/2023 11:32, Ji, Kai:
> > > > > > Ok, a long story short, this issue should only occurred when
> > > > > RTE_QAT_LIBIPSECMB is enabled.
> > > > > > It was intend to remove Openssl lib dependency in QAT replaced
> > > > > > with ipsec_mb lib, but the work was partially done due to
> > > > > > limitation of ipsec_mb by the time (FIPS certification)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm happy with current fix and please cc: stable at dpdk.org
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm not happy with this fix. It is a dirty workaround.
> > > > > It would be better to have an #ifdef in ipsec_mb.
> > > > >
> > > > > Also I would like an answer to the question below. What triggered this
> > > error?
> > > > > Is it a new thing in the lib ipsec_mb?
> > > > > Why defining AES_BLOCK_SIZE while IMB_AES_BLOCK_SIZE can be used
> > > and
> > > > > have a proper prefix?
> > > >
> > > > Apologies for the late response.
> > > >
> > > > This macro was renamed to IMB_AES_BLOCK_SIZE, as you already know.
> > > > The problem is that, for compatibility reasons, we had to keep the old
> > > macro as well.
> > > > However, we added a compile time flag to remove these legacy macros,
> > > > for exactly this reason (NO_COMPAT_IMB_API_053).
> > > >
> > > > I think a solution could be to use this flag in QAT, so the legacy macros are
> > > not defined.
> > > >
> > > > I will send a patch to fix this.
> > >
> > > OK good, so we can reject this patch?
> > >
> >
> > Well, this patch is merged already, but mine will revert it and add the new flag
> > (pointing at the other commit to be fixed), so that should be OK, right?
> 
> The patch was merged in the crypto tree but we can discard it.
> Akhil, please remove this patch from your tree, thanks.
> 
Done.