Re: [PATCH] crypto: hisilicon/sec - remove SEC crypto block cipher accelerator

[huangchenghai]

在 2026/8/19 1:28, Eric Biggers 写道:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 04:31:32PM +0800, Chenghai Huang wrote:
> > The Hisilicon SEC crypto cipher accelerator has been superseded
> > by the newer SEC2 driver (drivers/crypto/hisilicon/sec2/). SEC2
> > provides wider algorithm coverage and is the maintained path forward,
> > and users have migrated to it.
> >
> > The legacy SEC driver has had no active users for some time, and its
> > primary maintainer, Jonathan Cameron, has moved on from Huawei and
> > is no longer in a position to maintain it. With thanks to Jonathan
> > for his contributions to this driver over the years, and with no one
> > left to keep it up to date, remove it from the tree.
> >
> > This drops the legacy SEC driver together with all of its residual
> > configuration, devicetree binding and board description references:
> >
> >    - drivers/crypto/hisilicon/sec/
> >    - CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_HISI_SEC Kconfig option
> >    - sec/ entry from drivers/crypto/hisilicon/Makefile
> >    - Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/hisilicon,hip06-sec.yaml
> >    - hisilicon,hip07-sec device nodes and their supporting mbigen_alg /
> >      smmu_alg infrastructure from arch/arm64/boot/dts/hisilicon/hip07.dtsi
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Chenghai Huang <huangchenghai2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> You might also need an ack from a devicetree maintainer for dropping the
> devicetree binding, though.  They sometimes like to keep the bindings
> around even with no driver for some reason.
>
> - Eric

Alright, I will resend it and send it to the devicetree maintainer.


Thanks,
Chenghai