Re: [PATCH 00/20] crypto: caam - driver updates

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On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 07:42:34PM -0500, Kim Phillips wrote:
> The following updates bring the upstream CAAM driver mostly up to date wrt
> Freescale's SDK 1.2 release:
> 
> patch 1 is a cosmetic fix
> 
> patch 2 is a mapping size fix
> 
> patches 3-5 are protocol descriptor generation updates (not currently used
> in the kernel driver, but these header files are shared with other projects in
> the SDK; hope that's ok).
> 
> patches 6-9 refactor code in preparation for ahash and hwrng support; and
> patch 7 removes the job ring registration interface in favour of user-managed
> selection and sharing of rings (see caam_rng_init, which simply chooses
> job ring 0 for all its operations).
> 
> patches 10-12 add ahash support (keyed and unkeyed)
> 
> patch 13 adds hwrng support
> 
> patches 14-15 add support for the SEC v5.x series, which most notably gets a
> new RNG (tested on P5040 h/w)
> 
> patches 16-20 contain various performance improvements

All applied.  Thanks Kim!

> There are two patches remaining in the SDK that I'm holding off for now,
> as I believe they need more testing: use NAPI instead of tasklet, and
> set descriptor sharing type to SERIAL.

While using the NAPI concept definitely makes sense, I'm still
unsure about using napi_struct directly in crypto code.  Dave,
did you have a chance to look at their patch to use NAPI in their
crypto driver?

Cheers,
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