[PATCH] Support fsl-dcp crypto coprocessor

Shawn Guo shawn.guo at linaro.org
Sun Apr 28 08:19:47 EDT 2013


On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 02:55:57PM +0200, Christoph G. Baumann wrote:
> 
> > IMHO it doesn't make any sense to push this into staging. The Freescale
> > kernel is full of drivers which are not ready for mainline yet.
> 
> Indeed the Freescale kernel is a heap of <censored>.
> 
> 
> > Until now, it was a good strategy to wait until some code is needed,
> > then clean it up, adapt it to the right kernel APIs and push it into
> > non-staging mainline.
> 
> Well, that's what I'm trying to do. I picked a particular driver and
> adapted it to the current mainline.

Then why not put them into drivers/crypto/ rather than
drivers/staging/crypto/?

Shawn

> So if there are concrete proposals or criticism about this patch, please
> tell me. As I stated the code is from Freescale and I won't be offended.




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