linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] staging: add ccree crypto driver

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Message-ID: <CAOtvUMexVoojHMtxgJfxgGM+DVpVP2Yn9OZYtrYfdenKwQ_oVw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 19 Apr 2017 17:34:57 +0300
From:   Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad.benyossef@....com>,
        Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@...aro.org>,
        Ofir Drang <ofir.drang@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] staging: add ccree crypto driver

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 05:07:50PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
>> Arm TrustZone CryptoCell 700 is a family of cryptographic hardware
>> accelerators. It is supported by a long lived series of out of tree
>> drivers, which I am now in the process of unifying and upstreaming.
>> This is the first drop, supporting the new CryptoCell 712 REE.
>>
>> The code still needs some cleanup before maturing to a proper
>> upstream driver, which I am in the process of doing. However,
>> as discussion of some of the capabilities of the hardware and
>> its application to some dm-crypt and dm-verity features recently
>> took place I though it is better to do this in the open via the
>> staging tree.
>>
>> A Git repository based off of Linux 4.11-rc7 is available at
>> https://github.com/gby/linux.git branch ccree.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>
>> CC: Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@...aro.org>
>> CC: Ofir Drang <ofir.drang@....com>
>>
>> Gilad Ben-Yossef (4):
>>   staging: add ccree crypto driver
>>   staging: ccree: add TODO list
>>   staging: ccree: add devicetree bindings
>>   MAINTAINERS: add Gilad BY as maintainer for ccree
>
> We can't do much without a real patch, sorry.  Digging in random git
> trees doesn't work :(
>
> I can't take this as-is, I need patches.

Got it.

I'll break the driver to a series of patches and post them .
Thanks for the feedback.

Gilad



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