Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: hisilicon/sec - remove SEC crypto block cipher accelerator

[Herbert Xu]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2026 at 03:53:53PM +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 The Hisilicon SEC crypto cipher accelerator has been superseded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>
> Reviewed-by: Longfang Liu <liulongfang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Wei Xu <xuwei5@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  .../bindings/crypto/hisilicon,hip06-sec.yaml  |  134 --
>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/hisilicon/hip07.dtsi      |  280 ----
>  drivers/crypto/hisilicon/Kconfig              |   14 -
>  drivers/crypto/hisilicon/Makefile             |    1 -
>  drivers/crypto/hisilicon/sec/Makefile         |    3 -
>  drivers/crypto/hisilicon/sec/sec_algs.c       | 1122 --------------
>  drivers/crypto/hisilicon/sec/sec_drv.c        | 1307 -----------------
>  drivers/crypto/hisilicon/sec/sec_drv.h        |  428 ------
>  8 files changed, 3289 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/hisilicon,hip06-sec.yaml
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/crypto/hisilicon/sec/Makefile
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/crypto/hisilicon/sec/sec_algs.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/crypto/hisilicon/sec/sec_drv.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/crypto/hisilicon/sec/sec_drv.h

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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