linux-kernel - RE: Arm CryptoCell driver -- default Y, even on machines where it is obviously useless

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Date:   Sun, 26 Apr 2020 05:34:26 +0000
From:   Hadar Gat <Hadar.Gat@....com>
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
CC:     kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "herbert@...dor.apana.org.au" <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Ofir Drang <Ofir.Drang@....com>,
        Gilad Ben Yossef <Gilad.BenYossef@....com>, nd <nd@....com>
Subject: RE: Arm CryptoCell driver -- default Y, even on machines where it is
 obviously useless


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
> Sent: Sunday, 26 April 2020 0:18
> 
> On Sat 2020-04-18 20:31:00, Hadar Gat wrote:
> > Hi Pavel,
> > I think you got it right..
> > Indeed, Arm CryptoCell CCTRNG driver couldn't be used and obviously
> useless if the Arm CryptoCell HW does not exist in the system.
> 
> Yup.. So.. can authors fix it somehow?
> 

Yes. I'm on it.