From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Introduce the cypto engine framework Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 22:33:58 +0800 Message-ID: <20160201143358.GA11410@gondor.apana.org.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: davem@davemloft.net, broonie@kernel.org, linus.walleij@linaro.org, arnd@arndb.de, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Baolin Wang Return-path: Received: from helcar.hengli.com.au ([209.40.204.226]:36371 "EHLO helcar.hengli.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932418AbcBAOeO (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Feb 2016 09:34:14 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 08:25:37PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote: > Now block cipher engines need to implement and maintain their own queue/thread > for processing requests, moreover currently helpers provided for only the queue > itself (in crypto_enqueue_request() and crypto_dequeue_request()) but they > don't help with the mechanics of driving the hardware (things like running the > request immediately, DMA map it or providing a thread to process the queue in) > even though a lot of that code really shouldn't vary that much from device to > device. > > This patch introduces the crypto engine framework to help the crypto hardware > drivers to queue requests. Very nice, all applied. Thanks! -- Email: Herbert Xu Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt