On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 04:21:31PM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote: > Change the nx-842 common driver to wait for loading of both platform > drivers, and fail loading if the platform driver pointer is not set. > Add an independent platform driver pointer, that the platform drivers > set if they find they are able to load (i.e. if they find their platform > devicetree node(s)). > > The problem is currently, the main nx-842 driver will stay loaded even > if there is no platform driver and thus no possible way it can do any > compression or decompression. This allows the crypto 842-nx driver > to load even if it won't actually work. For crypto compression users > (e.g. zswap) that expect an available crypto compression driver to > actually work, this is bad. This patch fixes that, so the 842-nx crypto > compression driver won't load if it doesn't have the driver and hardware > available to perform the compression. > > Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@xxxxxxxx> Applied. Though I had to do the Makefile bit by hand because it contains references to nx-compress-test which doesn't exist in my tree. -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
