linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] accel/amdpk: add driver for AMD PKI accelerator

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Message-ID: <Z_imAnYu1hGRb8An@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 13:17:54 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To: "Gupta, Nipun" <nipun.gupta@....com>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>, davem@...emloft.net,
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	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] accel/amdpk: add driver for AMD PKI accelerator

On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 10:21:03AM +0530, Gupta, Nipun wrote:
>
> added crypto maintainers for comments.
> IMO, as accel framework is designed to support any type of compute
> accelerators, the PKI crypto accelerator in accel framework is not
> completely out of place here, as also suggested at:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/2025031352-gyration-deceit-5563@gregkh/
> 
> Having the crypto accelerator as part of accel also enables to extract
> the most performance from the HW PKI engines, given that the queue
> assignment is handled per drm device open call.

There is actually a user-space interface for asymmetric crypto
through the keyring subsystem.  Adding the maintainers of those
in case they wish to comment on your driver.

Thanks,
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