Re: [PATCH 08/10] crypto: omap-aes: gmc: Add algo info

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Am Donnerstag, 2. Juli 2015, 15:24:58 schrieb Lokesh Vutla:

Hi Lokesh,

>>> +{
>>> +	.cra_name		= "gcm(aes)",
>>> +	.cra_driver_name	= "gcm-aes-omap",
>>> +	.cra_priority		= 100,
>> 
>> Why did you choose the priority 100? The software implementations commonly
>> use 100. crypto/gcm.c uses the prio of the underlying cipher. In case of
>> ARM, there seem to be assembler implementations of AES which have the prio
>> of 200 or 300. So, such software implementation of gcm(aes) would have a
>> higher precedence than your hw implementation.
>
>Yes, you are right.
>Other hw algos in omap-aes also uses priority 100.
>Only sw and hw implementations are enabled right now and both are at same
>priority. And till now its lucky enough that hw algo gets picked.

Maybe those HW prios should be updated too?

Ciao
Stephan
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