linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] staging: ccree: remove ccree from staging tree

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Date:   Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:39:11 +0200
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>,
        Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ofir Drang <ofir.drang@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] staging: ccree: remove ccree from staging tree

On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 3:21 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 09:17:08AM +0000, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
>> Remove the ccree driver from the staging tree in preparation to
>> introducing it in the crypto tree.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>
>
> Heh, no, just make a patch series that adds the driver to the correct
> location in the crypto tree.
>
> If that gets accepted, we can then delete the staging driver with a
> separate patch, after the fact.  No need for it to be in this patch
> series.

Yes, I should have been more communicative as to why I am doing this, sorry.

The problem is that if you apply the patch adding the driver to
drivers/crypto/ the kernel
no longer links due to symbol name collisions.

If we really must avoid doing an "atomic" replacement I guess I can change the
Kconfig name to ...CCREE_OLD or something although I would prefer not doing
that so that people using the driver in staging/ don't need to change
their kernel
build configs when they are upgrading versions.

Does that makes sense?

Thanks,
Gilad



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Gilad Ben-Yossef
Chief Coffee Drinker

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