linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Introduce the cypto engine framework

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Date:	Tue, 2 Feb 2016 09:37:54 +0800
From:	Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...aro.org>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Introduce the cypto engine framework

On 1 February 2016 at 22:33, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> 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!

Thanks a lot!

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