On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 1:08 AM, Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Oops sorry, I forgot to remove that old test module patch from my tree. Thanks. > -- > 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 -- 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
