linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Automatically load the vmx

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jul 2016 15:54:59 +1000
From:	"Alastair D'Silva" <alastair@....ibm.com>
To:	mpe@...erman.id.au
Cc:	benh@...nel.crashing.org, paulus@...ba.org,
	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, davem@...emloft.net,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Automatically load the vmx_crypto module if
 supported

On Wed, 2016-07-13 at 15:47 +1000, alastair@....ibm.com wrote:
> From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@...ilva.org>
> > This series allows the vmx_crypto module to be detected and
> automatically
> loaded via UDEV if the CPU supports the vector crypto feature.
> > Alastair D'Silva (2):
>   powerpc: Add module autoloading based on CPU features
>   crypto: vmx - Convert to CPU feature based module autoloading
> >  arch/powerpc/Kconfig                  |  1 +
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 70
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/crypto/vmx/Kconfig            |  2 +-
>  drivers/crypto/vmx/vmx.c              |  6 +--
>  4 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/include/asm/cpufeature.h

Please ignore the following:
  [PATCH 1/2] Allow drivers to be autoloaded.
  [PATCH 2/2] Automatically load the vmx_crypto module if supported.

-- Alastair D'Silva
Open Source Developer
Linux Technology Centre, IBM Australia
mob: 0423 762 819