[CryptoAPI-devel] Configure.help and other questions

[David B. <db...@du...>]

So, I may have done something wrong, but the Config.help options are not
showing up on my kernel config.  I was going to write
some help options for the different ciphers/digest, but the help that was
already there never showed up.
So, i started looking around for why they weren't on there and i ended up
not seeing any way to "register" the help file as a seperate place to look
for help texts.  afaict you just have to "cat crypto/Config.help
Documentation/Configure.help" ... which seems a little silly to me, can
anyone else shed some light on this for me?
I also implemented gen-cfb today, so now we can use cipher feedback mode
for everything provided we put the includes in there.  Which brings me to
my next question, could we just put #include "gen-<cipher>" in the
crypto.h instead of manually entering block modes into ever different
cipher?  I want to implement a couple other block modes, pcbc, and ofb,
maybe some more.  At any rate, we have to put new cipher contexts in every
cipher.. so i was trying to figure out a way to try and abstract that a
bit.  I'll poke around the sources some more, try to come up with ideas.
Dave