[PATCH 2/5] crypto: add Atmel AES driver

Eric Bénard eric at eukrea.com
Fri Jul 6 09:25:21 EDT 2012


Hi Jean-Christophe,

Le Fri, 6 Jul 2012 14:17:19 +0200,
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj at jcrosoft.com> a écrit :
> > +	u8	buf_in[ATMEL_AES_DMA_THRESHOLD] __aligned(sizeof(u32));
> can you allocate it
> > +	int	dma_in;
> > +	struct atmel_aes_dma	dma_lch_in;
> > +
> > +	u8	buf_out[ATMEL_AES_DMA_THRESHOLD] __aligned(sizeof(u32));
> ditto
> 
Why is that preferred to allocate dynamicaly these buffers (we are
talking of 2 x 16 bytes buffers) ?

> otherwise looks good
> 
thanks

Eric



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