From: "Joerg Roedel" Subject: Asynchronus crypto API Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 12:08:00 +0100 Message-ID: <20070209110800.GB25171@amd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org To: "Herbert Xu" , "David S. Miller" Return-path: Received: from outbound-dub.frontbridge.com ([213.199.154.16]:64563 "EHLO outbound2-dub-R.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161237AbXBILOG (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 06:14:06 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-crypto.vger.kernel.org Hello, recently I read the documentation in Documentation/crypto/ to learn something about the Linux crypto API internals. There I read the following sentence "Support for hardware crypto devices via an asynchronous interface is under development." Since this sentence is present at least since kernel 2.6.0 I would like to ask what the current state in the development of that API is? Is somebody still working on that API or are there some existing ideas for that which want to be implemented? I would like to help out with that if the help is needed. Background: I recently bought a HIFN crypto card and would like to use it under Linux without the need to use some external patchsets :) Joerg -- Joerg Roedel Operating System Research Center AMD Saxony LLC & Co. KG