Re: [PATCH 0/4] staging: add ccree crypto driver

From: Gilad Ben-Yossef
Date: Wed Apr 19 2017 - 10:35:05 EST


On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 05:07:50PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
>> Arm TrustZone CryptoCell 700 is a family of cryptographic hardware
>> accelerators. It is supported by a long lived series of out of tree
>> drivers, which I am now in the process of unifying and upstreaming.
>> This is the first drop, supporting the new CryptoCell 712 REE.
>>
>> The code still needs some cleanup before maturing to a proper
>> upstream driver, which I am in the process of doing. However,
>> as discussion of some of the capabilities of the hardware and
>> its application to some dm-crypt and dm-verity features recently
>> took place I though it is better to do this in the open via the
>> staging tree.
>>
>> A Git repository based off of Linux 4.11-rc7 is available at
>> https://github.com/gby/linux.git branch ccree.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Ofir Drang <ofir.drang@xxxxxxx>
>>
>> Gilad Ben-Yossef (4):
>> staging: add ccree crypto driver
>> staging: ccree: add TODO list
>> staging: ccree: add devicetree bindings
>> MAINTAINERS: add Gilad BY as maintainer for ccree
>
> We can't do much without a real patch, sorry. Digging in random git
> trees doesn't work :(
>
> I can't take this as-is, I need patches.

Got it.

I'll break the driver to a series of patches and post them .
Thanks for the feedback.

Gilad



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