linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/11] crypto: sunxi-ss: prevent compilation on 64-bit

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Date:	Tue, 2 Feb 2016 11:16:16 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>
Cc:	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
	Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>, linux-sunxi@...glegroups.com,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] crypto: sunxi-ss: prevent compilation on 64-bit

On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 05:39:21PM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
> The driver for the sunxi-ss crypto engine is not entirely 64-bit safe,
> compilation on arm64 spits some warnings.
> The proper fix was deemed to involved [1], so since 64-bit SoCs won't
> have this IP block we just disable this driver for 64-bit.
> 
> [1]: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-January/399988.html
>      (and the reply)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>

I still use COMPILE_TEST to test compile these drivers.  So while
I don't have a problem with this patch per se, please continue to
ensure that it doesn't generate warnings on 64-bit platforms.

Cheers,
-- 
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