Re: [PATCH] driver: char: bfin_crc: CRC hardware accelerator driver for BF60x family processors.

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>]

On Wednesday 16 May 2012, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > Do we have a userspace crypto API these days? The last I remember every
> > attempt to add one so far was abandoned before it got merged. There is
> > drivers/s390/crypto/zcrypt*, which has a nonportable API, and 
> > then there is the in-kernel crypto layer in drivers/crypto that has
> > no user interface at all.
> 
> What is CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER for then, with the matching,
> crypto/crypto_user.c file?

Ah, I completely missed that going in and looked in the wrong place
when trying to find it now (/drivers/crypto, not /crypto). I'm glad
that part is resolved.

> > I agree that having another private driver for bfin_crc is not a good
> > idea, but I also don't have a better one.
> > 
> > About the driver itself, the submission seems incomplete (missing at
> > least the bfin_crc.h file) and the driver has a number of shortcomings
> > that we should discuss in case we decide to merge it.
> 
> I suggest at least tieing into the in-kernel crypto api first, and then
> worrying about the userspace side of things, right?

Absolutely.

	Arnd